I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEEWriting is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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