"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music……" — Harper Lee
"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."
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189 Quotes by Harper Lee
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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