There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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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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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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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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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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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