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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
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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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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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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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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.
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She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad.
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Where are your pants, son?
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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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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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I do my best to love everybody
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Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.
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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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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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A man can condemn his enemies, but it's wiser to know them.
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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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Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.
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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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I shall never marry, Atticus. Why? I might have children.
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