Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
HARPER LEESummer 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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