We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEWe’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEEYou 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.
HARPER LEEMy 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.
HARPER LEEBut before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEEShe 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 LEEBad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
HARPER LEEThere are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
HARPER LEERest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
HARPER LEEReal courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
HARPER LEEAny writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEEI’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.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEIt 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.
HARPER LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEE