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When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
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
Nelle Harper Lee
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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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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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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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There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice... His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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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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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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I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
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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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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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