Harper Lee Quotes
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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'An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice...' 'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.'
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From now on it’ll be everybody less one-
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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When the new wore off his grandfather’s watch, and carrying it became a day’s burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.
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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
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And it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains. I don't know of any landowner around here who begrudges those children any game their father can hit. Of course he shouldn't, but he'll never change his ways. Are you going to take out your disapproval on his children?
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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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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Well if you don’t want me to grow up talkin‘ that way, why do you send me to school?
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he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
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Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
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As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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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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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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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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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. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.