I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEEYou can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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