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.
HARPER LEERest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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 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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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