With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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I 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.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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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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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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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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