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I'm little but I'm old.

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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Poet Lawyer
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Screenwriter
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Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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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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No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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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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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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