It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEEPeople generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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 the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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