As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
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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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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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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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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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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I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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