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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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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
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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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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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Let the dead bury the dead.
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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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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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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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