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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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Alabama
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summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse summer was everything good to eatit was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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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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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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It's not time to worry yet
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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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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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.
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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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No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.
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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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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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I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.
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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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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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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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