Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
HARPER LEERest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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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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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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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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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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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