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Mockingbird Quotes by Harper Lee
- I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
- I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film…
- 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…
- So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped,…
- 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…
- Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
- There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
- A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man.…
- Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.
- I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that…
- You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
- Hey, Mr. Cunningham. How's your entailment gettin' along?
- ...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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
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