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.
HARPER LEEThe 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.
HARPER LEEI think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEEAs a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
HARPER LEEThe one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
HARPER LEEI would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
HARPER LEEThere’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 LEEI wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
HARPER LEEShe 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.
HARPER LEEThings are always better in the morning.
HARPER LEEWriting is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
HARPER LEEI do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEEYou rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEEUntil I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEEPeople generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
HARPER LEEIt’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
HARPER LEEYou never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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