Harper Lee Quotes - Page 8

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• There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said.

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  Light, Blue, Breathing

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

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• I'm little but I'm old.

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  Littles

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.

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  Tkam, People, Jem And Scout

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.

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  Needs, I Can Do It, Knows

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats he could catch, that's why his hands were bloodstained - if you ate animal raw, you could never wash the blood off. There was a long jagged scar that ran across his face; what teeth he had were yellow and rotten; his eyes popped, and he drooled most of the time.

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  Cat, Eye, Animal

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

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• Dill if you don't hush I'll knock you bowlegged.

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  Hush, Ifs

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

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• We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. "Yawl write, hear?" he bawled after us.

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  Writing, Bye, House

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

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• I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.

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  Past, Thinking, Facts

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

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• I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

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  Men, Trying, Kind

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

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• Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!

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  Hens, Bigs, Jacob

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• About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

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  Writing, Hands, Left Hand

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

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• Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?

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  Stupid, Turtles, Said

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• Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night

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  Night, Folks

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• Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.

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  Reading, Thinking, Two

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a total failure as a parent, but I'm all they've got. Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I've tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.. if I connived at something like this, frankly I couldn't meet his eye, and the day I can't do that I'll know I've lost him. I don't want to lose him and Scout, because they're all I've got.

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  Eye, Simple, Thinking

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• Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.

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  Blue, Tkam, Ems

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ch. 10

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• Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.

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  Tkam, People, Mad

  Harper Lee (1970). “To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.20, Dramatic Publishing

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• You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

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  Tkam, Jem And Scout, Most Powerful

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back.

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  Ku Klux Klan, Twenties, Nineteen

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• Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want.

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  Baby, Questions And Answers, Examination

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• I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it. As a result I'll go for days and days without leaving the house or wherever I happen to be. I'll go out long enough to get papers and pick up some food and that's it. It's strange, but instead of hating writing I love it too much.

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  Hate, Writing, Long

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

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  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

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

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• Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up - some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

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  Heart, Empty Rooms, Darkness

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• The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

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  Doors, People, House

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

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• I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself.

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  Writing, Thinking, Ideas

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

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