As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
HARPER LEE
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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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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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. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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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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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of 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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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