She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
HARPER LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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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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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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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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