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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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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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I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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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 think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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I'm little but I'm old.
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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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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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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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