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.
HARPER LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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 better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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