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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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It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
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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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summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse summer was everything good to eatit was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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I don't hafta take his sass
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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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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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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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