Harper Lee quotes - page 4

When stalking one's prey, it is best to take one's time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge. (Harper Lee)

Nothin's real scary except in books.

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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.

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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

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I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.

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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.

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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

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When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.

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Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.

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I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children. (Harper Lee)

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.

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Remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... but 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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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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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

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There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.

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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.

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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself... It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

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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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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. (Harper Lee)

Don't talk like that, Dill,” said Aunt Alexandra. "It's not becoming to a child. It's – cynical.” "I ain't cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical, is it?” "The way you tell it, it is.

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[T]he time your friends need you is when they're wrong, Jean Louise. They don't need you when they're right.

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I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.

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Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to.

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Harper Lee

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Occupation: American Novelist
Born: April 28, 1926
Died: February 19, 2016
Quotes count: 151
Wikipedia: Harper Lee

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