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.
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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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