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 in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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