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.
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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Things are always better in the morning.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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 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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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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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