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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.

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
Nelle Harper Lee
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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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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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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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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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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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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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When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice... His hands were under my chin, pulling up the cover, tucking it around me. Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them.
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.
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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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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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Things are always better in the morning.
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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
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Naturally, you don't sit down in white hot inspiration and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.
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He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
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