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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
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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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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My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
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I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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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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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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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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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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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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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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