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.
HARPER LEEMockingbirds 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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