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My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.

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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Screenwriter
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Monroeville
Alabama
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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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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
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We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.
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There's no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There's no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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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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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
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There is one way in this country in which all men are created equal—there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution, gentlemen, is the court.
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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 think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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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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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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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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