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.
HARPER LEERest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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 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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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