But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
HARPER LEEI do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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