Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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