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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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Monroeville
Alabama
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It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
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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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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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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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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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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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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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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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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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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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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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