QUOTES by Harper Lee
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"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."
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"Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in."
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"He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
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"See there?" Jem was scowling triumphantly. "Nothin' to it. I swear, Scout, sometimes you act so much like a girl its mortifyin"
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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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"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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"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—” “Sir?” “—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
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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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"Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious."
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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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"Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
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"Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it."
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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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"Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?"
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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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"There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them."
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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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"As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity."
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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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"Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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"Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere."
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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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"They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night."
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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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"There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
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"You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't."
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"We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change. -Atticus Finch"
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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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"Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
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