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.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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 one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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 rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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