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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
Jem
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Mockingbird

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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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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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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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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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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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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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