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.
HARPER LEEWith him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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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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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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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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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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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