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 LEEYou can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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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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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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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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