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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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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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Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
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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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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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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 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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She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.
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Where are your pants, son?
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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It's not time to worry yet
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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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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I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.
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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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