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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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Poet Lawyer
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Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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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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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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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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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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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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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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There are just some kind of men…who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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