Harper Lee Quotes

Biography: Harper Lee is best known for her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Born i... more Biography: Harper Lee is best known for her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Born in Monroeville, Alabama, in 1926, she published her seminal work in 1960, which won the Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. Lee's portrayal of racial injustice and moral growth has left a lasting impact. less

"People don’t like to have somebody knowing more than they do. It aggravates them""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""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""The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think""You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them""Things are always better in the morning""People in their right minds never take pride in their talents""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""Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.""People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.""The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.""Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."

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