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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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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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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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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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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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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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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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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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We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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It's not time to worry yet
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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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Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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