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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
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Alabama
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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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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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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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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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Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.
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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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Before Jem looks at anyone else he looks at me, and I’ve tried to live so I can look squarely back at him.
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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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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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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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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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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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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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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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Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
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