I do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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