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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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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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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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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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I do my best to love everybody
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When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice... His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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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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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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I don't hafta take his sass
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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