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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
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Poet Lawyer
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
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Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
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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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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.
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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
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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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I don't hafta take his sass
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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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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