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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

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
Nelle Harper Lee
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Mockingbird
Jem
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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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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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