I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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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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