I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
HARPER LEEThere are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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