With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEEI’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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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 pick funny things to be proud of.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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