Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEESome 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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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 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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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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