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Things are never as bad as they seem.

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
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Mockingbird

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Naturally, you don't sit down in white hot inspiration and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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