Harper Lee quote about reading from To Kill a Mockingbird - Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
 Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). copy citation

Context

“I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words, but I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow—anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
I knew I had annoyed Miss Caroline, so I let well enough alone and stared out the window until recess when Jem cut me from the covey of first-graders in the schoolyard. He asked how I was getting along.” source

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