As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
HARPER LEEIt’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.
More Harper Lee Quotes
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Things are always better in the morning.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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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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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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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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