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.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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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.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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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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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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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.
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