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 LEEWhen 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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