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 LEEThings are always better in the morning.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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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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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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