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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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I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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It's not time to worry yet
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He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
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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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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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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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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
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Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?
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