Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
HARPER LEEMockingbirds 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know 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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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