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.
HARPER LEEYou can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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