"Well, they're Southern people, and if they know……" — Harper Lee
"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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189 Quotes by Harper Lee
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of…
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is…
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we…
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who…
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms,…
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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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Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense…
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to…
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death…
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As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for…
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with…
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I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever…
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In the morning we received some very thin coffee. For lunch we had potato soup with a few pieces of…
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But…
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions,…
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I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.
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Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
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I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.
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I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I…
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