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The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

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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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I have said what I wanted to say and I will not say it again.
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No, everybody's gotta learn, nobody's born knowin'. That Walter's as smart as he can be, he just gets held back sometimes because he has to stay out and help his daddy. Nothin's wrong with him. Naw, Jem, I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.
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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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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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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'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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