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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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I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
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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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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.
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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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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
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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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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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