But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
HARPER LEE
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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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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.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
HARPER LEE