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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
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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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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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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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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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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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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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I do my best to love everybody
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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