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.
HARPER LEECharacters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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It 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.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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