Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
HARPER LEESummer 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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