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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
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Screenwriter
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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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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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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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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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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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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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
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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 have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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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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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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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
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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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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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