People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEESometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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 would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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