Remembering Harper Lee E-Book

Patrick Roy

• Herausgeber: Patrick Roy
• Kategorie: Bildung
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

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Remembering Harper Lee: One of the literary world's most enigmatic stars.  To Kill a Mockingbird, has eclipsed  Huckleberry Finn in more ways than one as the book of American experience and paradox that almost every school kid reads. By all accounts, she was happy and lively, yet it’s hard to consider these the best years of her life. She arrived early in her wisdom. And we caught on slowly. Harper Lee was the rare writer who may have lived too long.

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Remembering Harper Lee

Remembering Harper Lee

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Here’s a roundup of the author’s (rare) statements in life, and on the page:

1. “It's better to be silent than to be a fool.”

— Alabama Academy of Honor "speech" 2007

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2. “Some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.”

—Letter to Oprah in 2006

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3. “Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

—Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

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4. “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, To Kill A Mockingbird

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5. “Naturally, you don't sit down in 'white hot inspiration' and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.”

—Interview with Roy Newquist, Counterpoints, 1964

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6. “All I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama.”

—WQXR radio station in New York

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7. “Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

—Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

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8. “The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

—Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird

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9. “You see, more than a simple matter of putting down words, writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer.”

—Interview with Roy Newquist, Counterpoints, 1964

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