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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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 thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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 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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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