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.
HARPER LEEThe one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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 still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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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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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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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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