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 LEELadies pick funny things to be proud of.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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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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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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