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Harper Lee Quotes

Harper Lee quotes

American Novelist, Writer April 28, 1926

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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again. Harper Lee
I had a feeling that I shouldn't be here listening to this sinful man who had mixed children and didn't care who knew it, but he was fascinating. I had never encountered a being who deliberately perpetrated fraud against himself. But why had he entrusted us with his deepest secret? I asked him why. 'Because you're children and you can unterstand it,' he said. Harper Lee
Harper Lee quote: "One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when..."
One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them. Harper Lee
I suggested that one could be a ray ofsunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like asunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Harper Lee
Harper Lee quote: "I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a..."
I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes awoman to do that kind of work. Harper Lee
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. Harper Lee
Harper Lee quote: "I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. ..."
I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout Harper Lee
Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. Harper Lee
Thought you could kill my Snow-on-the-Mountain, did you? Well, Jessie says that the top's growing back out. Next time you'll know how to do it right, won't you? You'll pull it up by the roots, won't you? Harper Lee
Harper Lee quote: "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'."
Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'. Harper Lee
Yeah, that's all," said Dill. "He'll probably come out after you when he sees you in the yard, then Scout'n' me'll jump on him and hold him down till we can tell him we ain't gonna hurt him. Harper Lee
Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, 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 Lee
We know all men are not created equal in the sense some people are smarter than others, some people have more opportunity because they're born with it, some men make more money than others, some ladies make better cakes than others - some people are born gifted beyond the normal scope of most men. Harper Lee
Harper Lee quote: "The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the..."
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one that makes you think. Harper Lee
Harper Lee quote: "The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the..."
The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. Harper Lee

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