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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
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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There's just some kind of men you have to shoot before you can say hidy to 'em. Even then, they ain't worth the bullet it takes to shoot 'em.
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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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 do my best to love everybody
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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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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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
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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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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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