With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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.
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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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 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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