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Harper Lee
American
Novelist
Born:
Apr 28
,
1926
Died:
Feb 19
,
2016
Because
Book
Life
Me
Think
You
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
Harper Lee
You
Consider
Point
Point Of View
Never
Until
Understand
His
Person
Really
View
Things
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
You
Bible
Book
World
Think
Read
Equals
Makes
Which
Thinks
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
Harper Lee
Rule
One Thing
Abide
Majority
Person
The One Thing
Conscience
Thing
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
You
Courage
Matter
Before
See
Through
Know
Real
Begin
Anyway
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
Home
You
People
Coffee
Nothing
Think
Dream
Know
Well
Southern
Walking
Golf
Working
Right
Interrupting
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
Myself
Before
Live
Other
Rule
One Thing
Abide
Folks
Majority
Got
Person
The One Thing
Conscience
Thing
I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.
Harper Lee
Time
Problems
Own
Busy
Think
Too
Other
About
My Own
No Time
Writers
Am
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Harper Lee
You
Joke
Books
Out
Out Here
Because
Got
Hitting
Really
Start
Here
This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.
Harper Lee
Life
Way
Kind
Tried
General
Make
South
Child
Any
Children
Happen
Might
Things
I'm a slow worker; I'm, I think, a steady worker.
Harper Lee
Slow
Think
Steady
Worker
It is all fiction, only autobiographical in the sense it is about a small town. None of the incidents in the book ever happened to me as a child. I didn't have an eventful childhood.
Harper Lee
Me
Book
Sense
About
Only
Small
Small Town
Town
None
Child
Childhood
Autobiographical
Fiction
Happened
Incidents
Ever
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