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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
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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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 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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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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Naturally, you don't sit down in white hot inspiration and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.
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