I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEEBad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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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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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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