The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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You 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.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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