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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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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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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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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse summer was everything good to eatit was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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I do my best to love everybody
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Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
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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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There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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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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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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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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