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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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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