You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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