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Harper Lee Quote: “Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.”
Harper Lee Quote: “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 a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.”
Harper Lee Quote: “No, everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowin’. That Walter’s as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin’s wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don’t pretend to understand.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Summer, and he watches his children’s heart break. Autumn again and Boo’s children needed him. 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.”
Harper Lee Quote: “When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!”
Harper Lee Quote: “Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.”
Harper Lee Quote: “They’ve done it before and they’ll do it again and when they do it – seems that only the children weep. Good night.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Kalau hanya ada satu jenis manusia, mengapa mereka tidak bisa rukun? Kalau mereka semua sama, mengapa mereka merepotkan diri untuk saling membenci?”
Harper Lee Quote: “Don’t you study about other folks’s business till you take care of your own.”
Harper Lee Quote: “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.”
Harper Lee Quote: “She did not stand alone, but what stood behind her, the most potent moral force in her life, was the love of her father.”
Harper Lee Quote: “The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -.”
Harper Lee Quote: “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.”
Harper Lee Quote: “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.”
Harper Lee Quote: “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 Quote: “Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Jen and I were accustomed to our father’s last-will-and-testament diction, and were at times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.”
Harper Lee Quote: “That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”
Harper Lee Quote: “You never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them.”
Harper Lee Quote: “That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they’re still human.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Mayella Ewell must have been the loneliest person in the world. She was even lonelier than Boo Radley, who had not been out of the house in twenty-five years.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Uno es valiente cuando, sabiendo que la batalla esta perdida de antemano, lo intenta a pesar de todo y lucha hasta el final.”
Harper Lee Quote: “They’re ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
Harper Lee Quote: “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.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Dill if you don’t hush I’ll knock you bowlegged.”
Harper Lee Quote: “She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.”
Harper Lee Quote: “She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Little Chuck grinned broadly. “There ain’t no need to fear a cootie, ma’am. Ain’t you ever seen one? Now don’t you be afraid, you just go back to your desk and teach us some more.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Atticus, are we going to win it?” “No, honey.” “Then, why – ” “Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win,” Atticus said.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.”
Harper Lee Quote: “But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I try to give’em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I’m little but I’m old.”
Harper Lee Quote: “I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.”
Harper Lee Quote: “It’s quite a thing, if you’ve never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They’re not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Nothin’s real scary except in books.”
Harper Lee Quote: “Most people are nice when you finally see them.”
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