I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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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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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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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