Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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