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I don't hafta take his sass

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.
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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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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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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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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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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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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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It's not time to worry yet
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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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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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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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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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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