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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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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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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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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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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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
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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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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
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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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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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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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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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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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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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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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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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It's not time to worry yet
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