I do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEAs 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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 think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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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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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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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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