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 LEELadies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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.
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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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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.
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