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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.

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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Monroeville
Alabama
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I'm little but I'm old.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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I do my best to love everybody
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
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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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Let the dead bury the dead.
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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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