I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
HARPER LEEEverybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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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 my best to love everybody.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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