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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Monroeville
Alabama
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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
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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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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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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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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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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse summer was everything good to eatit was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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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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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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Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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