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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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Monroeville
Alabama
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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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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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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?
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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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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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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
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