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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
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Monroeville
Alabama
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
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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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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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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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We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. Yawl write, hear? he bawled after us.
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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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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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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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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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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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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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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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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
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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 do my best to love everybody
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