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.
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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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 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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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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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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