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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.

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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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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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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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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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Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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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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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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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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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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As a reader I loathe introductions...Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do.
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She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.
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