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It's not time to worry yet

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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
Nelle Harper Lee
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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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