Quotes from Harper Lee

I'm older than anybody here, I know more than anybody here, so why should I be so afraid of anybody here?

They're certainly entitled to think that, and they're entitled to full respect for their opinions... 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." "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.

Kau boleh menembak burung bluejay sebanyak yang kau mau, kalau bisa kena, tetapi ingat , membunuh mockingbird itu dosa. Mocking bird menyanyikan musik untuk kita nikmati, hanya itulah yang mereka lakukan. Mereka tidak memakan tanaman di kebun orang, tidak bersarang di gudang jagung, mereka tidak melakukan apapun kecuali menyanyi dengan tulus untuk kita. Karena itulah, membunuh mockingbird itu dosa.

There was no point in saying you were sorry if you aren't.

But remember that to kill a mockingburd is a sin.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write. From a 1964 interview.

It drew him as the moon draws water.

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write. From a 1964 interview.

When she looked thus, only God and Robert Browning knew what she was likely to say.

Singurul lucru care nu poate fi statornicit prin legea majorit??ii este con?tiin?a omului - Atticus

I was to be a ham

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.

Antes de poder viviré con otras personas tengo que vivir conmigo mismo. La única cosa que no se rige por la regla de la mayoría es la conciencia de uno.

Sitting and listening to people you went to school with is excruciating for an hour. To hear the same conversion day in and day out is better than the Chinese torture method.

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for." ? Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Kad je gospo?ica Kerolajn stigla do mesta gde Gospa-Ma?ka poziva samoposlugu da naru?i miševe u slatkom ?okoladnom prelivu, razred se ve? vrpoljio kao crvi?i za pecanje u tegli. Izgleda da gospo?ica Kerolajn nije bila svesna toga da su odrpani, u košulje od grubog platna i suknje od džakova za brašno odeveni prvaci, od kojih je ve?ina po?ela brati pamuk i hraniti svinje ?im je prohodala, bili neprijem?ivi za književne maštovitosti.

Só que há alguns tipos de homem que... que estão tão ocupados preocupando-se com o próximo mundo, que nunca aprendem a viver neste

Yo creo que sólo hay una clase de personas. Personas

hard-headed hill folk do not understand coastal plain dreamers

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

Best way to clear the air is to have it all out in the open.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box.

I do my best to love everybody