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.
HARPER LEE
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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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