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.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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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.
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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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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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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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