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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
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Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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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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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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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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I do my best to love everybody
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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