There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
HARPER LEEWhen 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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