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.
HARPER LEEWhen 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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