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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.

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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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 think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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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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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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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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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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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 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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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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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
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