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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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Finches
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Mockingbird
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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
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I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that. You want to grow up to be a lady, don't you?' I said not particularly.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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I do my best to love everybody
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It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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