There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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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 never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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