QUOTES by Harper Lee
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"I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody..."
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"Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets."
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"When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge."
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"Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with."
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"I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it."
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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."
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"Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…"
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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"Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."
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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."
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"Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean."
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"Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own."
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"I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason."
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"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."
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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."
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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."
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"I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference."
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
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"I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing."
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"People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them."
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"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep."
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"Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him."
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"Scout, I�m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you�re gettin� more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them."
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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."
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"There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em."
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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."
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"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think."
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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."
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"You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them."
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