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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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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
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For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.
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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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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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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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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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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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