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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
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Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Dill? Mm? Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off? Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to
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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.
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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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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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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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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...
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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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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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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
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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 don't hafta take his sass
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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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