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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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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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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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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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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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Let the dead bury the dead.
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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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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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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 try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don't like to do that. Sometimes it's unpleasant.
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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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...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964
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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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I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
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So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
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I'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.
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