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We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.

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
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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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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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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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
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Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
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When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice... His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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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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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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