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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.
Harper Lee
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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.
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It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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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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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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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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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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