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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
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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Cooperation
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Alive
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Dill? Mm? Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off? Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have anywhere to run off to
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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
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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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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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I do my best to love everybody
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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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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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Where are your pants, son?
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When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
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It's not time to worry yet
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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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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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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