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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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I'm little but I'm old.
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It's not time to worry yet
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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I do my best to love everybody
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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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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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
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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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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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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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My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
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For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.
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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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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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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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