Things are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEEI 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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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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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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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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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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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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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 never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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 choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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