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.
HARPER LEEPeople generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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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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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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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.
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She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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