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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
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Monroeville
Alabama
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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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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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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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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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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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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We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us.
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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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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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