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Harper Lee — Portrait after a picture by Eric Draper (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.

The quotations of

Harper Lee

American novelist

1926–2016

7 quotes, most often on Animals and Advice.

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 10 (Atticus Finch)
- Animals
- Morality
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.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 10 (Miss Maudie)
- Animals
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 2, Ch. 23 (Scout)
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 2 (Scout)
- Reading
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view — until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 3 (Atticus Finch)
- Advice
- Wisdom
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 2, Ch. 23 (Atticus Finch)
- Justice
- Race
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em.
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), Pt. 1, Ch. 9 (Atticus Finch)
- Advice
- Children

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