Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
HARPER LEEThere’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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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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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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I do my best to love everybody.
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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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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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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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