“They try to strike terror in Southern mothers, lest their children grow up to fall in love with Negroes. If they didn’t… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I was more at home in my father's world. People like Mr. Heck Tate did not trap you with innocent questions to… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence. She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“And for goodness' sake put some of the county back where it belongs, the soil erosion's bad enough as it is." Dill… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of oh, of your… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Now you tell your father not to teach you any more. It's best to begin reading with a fresh mind. You tell… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“No jury in this part of the world's going to say, "We think you're guilty, but not very," on a charge like that. It… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“I wanted you to see something about her—I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“folks don’t like to have somebody around knowin’ more than they do. It aggravates ’em. You’re not gonna change any of them by talkin’… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“To begin with, this case should never have come to trial. The state has not produced one iota of medical evidence that the crime… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“The course of English Literature would have been decidedly different had Mr. Wordsworth owned a power mower.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
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