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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
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Novels
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A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.
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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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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.
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Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?
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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
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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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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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