We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEBad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Summer 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.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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