I do my best to love everybody.
HARPER LEECharacters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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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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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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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 can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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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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Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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