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Harper Lee Quotes

«Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.»
Author: Harper Lee | Keywords: anyway, licked, licks
«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.»
Author: Harper Lee | About: Books | Keywords: bible, equals, The Bible, the book
«You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.»
«Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.»
Author: Harper Lee | Keywords: breathing, feared, lose it
«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.»
Author: Harper Lee | About: Family | Keywords: bravest, Father Time, guns, hated, my father, wars
«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.»
«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.»
«I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.»
Author: Harper Lee | Keywords: Just One
«Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.»
«You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.»
Author: Harper Lee | Keywords: hitting, it No, no hit, the books