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It's not time to worry yet

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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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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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
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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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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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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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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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