Harper Lee Short Quotes

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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

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I shall never marry, Atticus." "Why?" "I might have children.

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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

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Sometimes it's better to bend the law a little in special cases.

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I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

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Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.

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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.

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

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

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.

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I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…

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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

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Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

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One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

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Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of [another].

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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.

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We're so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we've got men like Atticus to go for us.

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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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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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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

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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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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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The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

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