You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEEIt was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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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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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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