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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

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
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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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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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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
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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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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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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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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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This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
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The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -
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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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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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