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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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It's not time to worry yet
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Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
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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 think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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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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In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
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When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice... His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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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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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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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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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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