Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEERest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Writing 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.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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