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 LEEThings are always better in the morning.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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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 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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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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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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