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"44 Harper Lee Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 28 April 1926. Died: 19 February 2016 | Novelist |

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

Really understand Person Point View
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

Lose it Never loved Breathing
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

People generally See Look for
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

One thing Majority Rule Person's conscience
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.

People Right minds Never Talents
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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.

Times My father Hated guns Wars
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

Life Routine Unbearable
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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.

Real courage Licked No matter
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I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.

Born good Grown progressively Year
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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.

Choose Friends Family Look
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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.

Kind Men Worrying Next world
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It's not time to worry yet
Not time Worry
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Things are always better in the morning.

Things Better Morning
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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

Live Folks Myself Majority
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Prejudice Dirty word Faith Common
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.

Reader Introductions Pleasure Kill
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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.

Some men World Unpleasant jobs
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Things are never as bad as they seem.

Things Never Bad
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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.

Ugly things World Son Wish
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?

Proud Yourself Insulted Stranger
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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.

Seemed glad Appeared Kitchen Watching her
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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

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

Fighting Head Change Resist learning
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The time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right

Time Your friends Wrong Need you
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.

Man Condemn His enemy Wiser
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.

Really Know Person Shoes
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As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he’ll look for his lessons.

Sure History Repeating itself Man
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The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.
The books Read Thinks Makes
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Remember this also: it’s always easy to look back and see what we were, yesterday, ten years ago. It is hard to see what we are. If you can master that trick, you’ll get along.

Remember Always easy Look back Yesterday
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Cry about the simple hell people give other people- without even thinking. Cry about the hell white people give colored folks, without even stopping to think that they're people too.

Cry about People give Even thinking
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People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them.

People Like Somebody knowing Aggravates them
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I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.

Never loved Reading Feared Lose it
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
You Rarely win You do
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

Everybody Learn Born knowing
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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.

You see Never understand Live Way
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.

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

One thing Certain circumstances Do anything
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Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.

You study Folks's business Care
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
Ugly Facts Life
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In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
Went For walk Definite purpose Mind
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Sometimes we have to kill a little so we can live.
Sometimes Kill Little Live
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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.

Conclusion People Peculiar Withdrew
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Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.

Courage Licked See Matter
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I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.

Know Going Worry Have
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Harper Lee Quotes & Sayings