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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
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Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
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Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
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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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There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Dill? Mm? Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off? Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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