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

  Harper Lee

  God, Men, Hands

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Adults, Ems

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, 1962.

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Dad, War, Father

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.

  Harper Lee

  Summer, Children, Heart

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

  Harper Lee

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Powerful

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

  Harper Lee

  Flower, Good Luck, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.

  Harper Lee

  Respect, Black And White, Men

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 23 (1960)

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• If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, House, Want

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• That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.

  Harper Lee

  Animal, Gang, Mockingbird

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Laughing, World

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Squares, Color

  Harper Lee (1960). “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.

  Harper Lee

  People, Mad, Jem And Scout

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Killing Others, Majority Rule

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Heinemann

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• Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

  Harper Lee

  Sweet, Naps, Sweat

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Infobase Publishing

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• You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

  Harper Lee

  Winning, Sometimes, Mockingbird

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.76, Dramatic Publishing

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• Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

  Harper Lee

  Good Luck, Two, Broken

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Hurt, Thinking, Names

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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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.

  Harper Lee

  People, Jem And Scout, Mockingbird

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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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 quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Sake, Adults

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.

  Harper Lee

  Life, Men, Worry

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Powerful, Simple, Men

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Lying, Black And White, Men

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• You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

  Harper Lee

  Jem And Scout, Most Powerful, Mockingbird

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Integrity, Believe, Reality

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 20 (1960)

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• Things are always better in the morning.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Optimistic, Positivity

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