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.
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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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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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