But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEEA man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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