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.
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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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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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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 do my best to love everybody.
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