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 LEEBut sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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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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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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