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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
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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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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Naturally, you don't sit down in white hot inspiration and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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