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.
HARPER LEEAre you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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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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 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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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