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.
HARPER LEEAny writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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