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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
Nelle Harper Lee
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Exorcism
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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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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I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.
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It's not time to worry yet
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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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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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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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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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Where are your pants, son?
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I do my best to love everybody
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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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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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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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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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Finders were keepers unless title was proven.
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