"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem……" — Harper Lee
"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
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189 Quotes by Harper Lee
Harper Lee has 189 quotes on this site.
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
— Marcus Aurelius
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A ball had passed between my body and the right arm which supported him, cutting through the sleeve and passing…
— Clara Barton
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to…
— Vanna Bonta
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There's kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw…
— Jeff Bridges
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but…
— Barbara Bush
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Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away; A single laugh demolished the right arm Of his country.
— Lord Byron
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It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head…
— Sholom Aleichem
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One of the things that's interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When…
— Nicolas Cage
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Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn't understand its responsibility…
— Benjamin Carson
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If you let a bully intimidate you, he's going to do it again. You've got to stand up to these…
— Unknown Author
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It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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