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.
HARPER LEELadies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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 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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