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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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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Things are always better in the morning.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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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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This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends. But remember this, no matter how bitter things get, they're still our friends and this is still our home.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to my one, but he preferred the magic of his own inventions. He could add and subtract faster than lightning, but he preferred his own twilight world, a world where babies slept, waiting to be gathered like morning lilies.
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My father is one of the few men I've known who has genuine humility, and it lends him a natural dignity. He has absolutely no ego drive, and so he is one of the most beloved men in this part of the state.
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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.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn't dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.
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Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.
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It's not time to worry yet
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Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
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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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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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