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Harper Lee
American
Novelist
About the author
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
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.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Right
#People
#Nothing
#Home
#Golf
#Coffee
#Dream
#Walking
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Love
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Majority
#Conscience
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.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Bible
#World
Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Courage
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Advice
#Profit
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Books
Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Majority
#Conscience
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.
Harper Lee,
American
Novelist
#Thought
#Man
#Father