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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

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
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Monroeville
Alabama
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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I do my best to love everybody
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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I'm little but I'm old.
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In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.
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I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse summer was everything good to eatit was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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