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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
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Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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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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There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. Yawl write, hear? he bawled after us.
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summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse summer was everything good to eatit was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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