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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.

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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Screenwriter
Writer
Monroeville
Alabama
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Never
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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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