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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Monroeville
Alabama
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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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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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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It's not time to worry yet
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -
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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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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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He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
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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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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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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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We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. Yawl write, hear? he bawled after us.
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