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Let the dead bury the dead.

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
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
Mockingbird
Bury
Dead

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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
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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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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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