American - Novelist | April 28, 1926 - February 19, 2016
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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I'm a slow worker; I'm, I think, a steady worker.
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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get into work, I don't want to leave it. And as a result, I'll go for days and days and days without leaving my house.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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