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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.

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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Else
Back
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Mockingbird
Jem

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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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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.
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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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Naturally, you don't sit down in white hot inspiration and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
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