Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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 think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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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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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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