Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016), better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960.
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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 doesn’t hurt you. Harper Lee
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 doesn’t hurt you.
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. Harper Lee
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.
Atticus said, “I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it’s not true. Harper Lee
Atticus said, “I can take anything anybody calls me so long as it’s not true.
The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in. Harper Lee
The only thing I’m afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn’t be worth living in.
I can't beat you, I can't join you. Harper Lee
I can't beat you, I can't join you.
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. Harper Lee
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.
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 Harper Lee
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
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. Harper Lee
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.
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them. Harper Lee
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right Harper Lee
[T]he time your friends need you is when they’re wrong, Jean Louise. They don’t need you when they’re right
Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious. Harper Lee
Every man’s island, Jean Louise, every man’s watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscious.
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends Harper Lee
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends