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Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
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Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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Charles
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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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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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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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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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Where are your pants, son?
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Things are always better in the morning.
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I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.
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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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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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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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