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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
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Poet Lawyer
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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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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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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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
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This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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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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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 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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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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I'm little but I'm old.
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