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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.

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
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Monroeville
Alabama
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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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 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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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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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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