The Land of Sweet Forever Quotes

“We Americans like to put our culture into disposable containers. Nowhere is this more evident than in the way we treat our past. We discard villages, towns, even cities, when they grow old, and we are now in the process of discarding our recorded history, not in a shredder, but by rewriting it as romance.”
― Harper Lee, The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays

“I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.”
― Harper Lee, The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays

“Any act of love, however--no matter how small--lessens anxiety's grip, gives us a taste of tomorrow, and eases the yoke of our fears. Love, unlike virtue, is not its own reward. The reward of love is peace of mind, and peace of mind is the end of man's desiring.”
― Harper Lee, The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays

“One thing identifies love and isolates it from kindred emotions: love admits not of self.”
― Harper Lee, The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays

“Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it.”
― Harper Lee, The Land of Sweet Forever: Stories and Essays