People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEEAny writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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