Harper Lee Quotes - Page 3

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• There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.

  Harper Lee

  Son, Ugly Things, Wish

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy... and no money to buy it with.

  Harper Lee

  Sweet, Morning, Tired

  "Fictional character: Older Scout". To Kill a Mockingbird, www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

  Harper Lee

  Winning, Tkam, Sometimes

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.76, Dramatic Publishing

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Dad, War, Father

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Library, Old Fashioned

  "Harper Lee OKs e-book version of 'To Kill a Mockingbird'" by Melodi Smith, www.cnn.com. April 29, 2014.

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• I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Differences, Tkam

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.44, Infobase Publishing

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• As I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something. Out of what I knew not, yet I did not believe that twelve years of unrelieved boredom was exactly what the state had in mind for me.

  Harper Lee

  Education, Believe, School

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.

  Harper Lee

  Encouragement, Giving, Enough

  "Mockingbird author steps out of shadows" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2006.

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• Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

  Harper Lee

  Good Luck, Tkam, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

  Harper Lee

  Battle, Sides, Shame

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)”, p.7, Harper Collins

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Get Better, Want, Talent

  "All I Want To Be Is The Jane Austen Of South Alabama". Interview with Roy Newquist, www.thebluegrassspecial.com.

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• Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine sense of perception. As we grow older, the world closes in on us, and we gradually lose the freshness of viewpoint that we had as children. That is why I think children should get to know this country while they are young.

  Harper Lee

  Country, Children, Thinking

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• Naturally, you don't sit down in "white hot inspiration" and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.

  Harper Lee

  Inspiration, Writing, Flames

  "Harper Lee, 'To Kill a Mockingbird' author, dead at 89" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 19, 2016.

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• ...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964

  Harper Lee

  Alabama, Want, Interviews

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• I do my best to love everybody

  Harper Lee

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.

  Harper Lee

  Home, Fighting, Yankees

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.

  Harper Lee

  Uncles, Son, Long Ago

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Missing, Mockingbird

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.

  Harper Lee

  Morning, Night, Light

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Years, People

  "Harper Lee to publish new book, sequel to 'Mockingbird'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2015.

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• If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all this time. It's because he wants to stay inside.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, House

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• Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

  Harper Lee

  Law, Special, Littles

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste. Miss Caroline told me to tell my father not to teach me any more, it would interfere with my reading.

  Harper Lee

  Father, Reading, Eyebrows

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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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.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Tkam, Squares

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.

  Harper Lee

  Mockingbird, Folks, Knows

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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