With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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