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.
HARPER LEEIt’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.
HARPER LEEYou 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.
HARPER LEEThere are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEEI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEEBut before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEEI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
HARPER LEEI’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
HARPER LEEEverybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEEI would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
HARPER LEEWith him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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.
HARPER LEEMy objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
HARPER LEE