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.
HARPER LEEThere are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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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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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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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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