{"author":"Harper Lee","author_id":"Harper+Lee","total_quotes":144,"quotes":[{"text":"There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["harperlee","lies","tokillamockingbird"],"id":18876,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people would have us believe. Some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they’re born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cupcakes than others; some are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["equality"],"id":19755,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes’ conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["disagreements","family-relationships"],"id":36862,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"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 see it through no matter what.- Atticus Finch.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["atticus-finch","courage"],"id":42084,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["writing"],"id":44125,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["dill","inspirational","landscape","mockingbird","scout","season","summer"],"id":44832,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"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.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["truth-of-life"],"id":46234,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' comp'ny, and don't you let me catch you remarkin' on their ways like you was so high and and mighty! Yo' folks might be better'n the Cunninghams but it don't count for nothin' the way you're disgracin' 'em.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["calpurnia","equality","respect","sassy","to-kill-a-mockingbird"],"id":50132,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"Atticus, he was real nice.'Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["inspirational"],"id":54636,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"},{"text":"He might have hurt me a little,' Atticus conceded, 'but sn, you'll understand folks a little better when you're older. A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr Cunnignham was part of a mob last night, but he ws still a man.Every mob in every little Souhern town is always made up of people you know - doesn't say much for them, does it?''I'll say ot, ' said Jem.'So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses, didn't it?' said Atticus. 'That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.","author":"Harper Lee","tags":["children","evil","goodness","life-lessons"],"id":60716,"author_id":"Harper+Lee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":144,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}