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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
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Monroeville
Alabama
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
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It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.
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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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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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