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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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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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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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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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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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I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
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