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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
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Poet Lawyer
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
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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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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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This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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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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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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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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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
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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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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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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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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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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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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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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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