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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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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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I'm little but I'm old.
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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were 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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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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I do my best to love everybody
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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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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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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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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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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