As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
HARPER LEEI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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It 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.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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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 never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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