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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
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Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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Jem
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
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There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
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I do my best to love everybody
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
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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.
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The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -
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I don't hafta take his sass
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Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?
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