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Harper Lee
(American Novelist)

Date of Birth:: April 28, 1926
Nationality:: American
Quote count:: 14
Times favorited:: 14

Nelle Harper Lee is an American novelist known for her Pulitzer Prize–winning 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, her only major work. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom of United States for her contributions to literature in 2007.

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All quotes by Harper Lee

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Harper Lee

“The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.”

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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.”

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“As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash.”

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Harper Lee

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

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“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

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“Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.”

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“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”

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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.”

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“I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”

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“Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do. It aggravates em. You're not gonna change any of them by talking right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”

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