The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEAny writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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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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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 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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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