Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEEPeople in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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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 generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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