But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
HARPER LEEAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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