Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
HARPER LEEThings are never as bad as they seem.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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