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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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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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Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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I don't hafta take his sass
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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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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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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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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...
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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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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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