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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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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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You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep.
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They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.
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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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Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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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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You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.
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I'm little but I'm old.
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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 hafta take his sass
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My book had a universal theme. It's not a racial novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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Turtles don't feel, stupid, said Jem. Were you ever a turtle, huh?
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.
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