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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.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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.
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For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.
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I do my best to love everybody
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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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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
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