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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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 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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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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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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
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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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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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