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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
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Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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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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For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.
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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
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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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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...
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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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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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