"Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are,……" — Harper Lee
"Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
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189 Quotes by Harper Lee
Harper Lee has 189 quotes on this site.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of…
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is…
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we…
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who…
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms,…
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,
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Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense…
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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…
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death…
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As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for…
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with…
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I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are…
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Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity.…
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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…
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Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his…
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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…
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away…
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of…
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I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit,"…
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hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch
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When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real…
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