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.
HARPER LEEWhen 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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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