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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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Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
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Where are your pants, son?
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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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It's not time to worry yet
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.
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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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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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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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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.
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Let the dead bury the dead.
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Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
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I'm little but I'm old.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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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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Naturally, you don't sit down in white hot inspiration and write with a burning flame in front of you. But since I knew I could never be happy being anything but a writer, and Mockingbird put itself together for me so accommodatingly, I kept at it because I knew it had to be my first novel, for better or for worse.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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