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I do my best to love everybody

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
Novelist
Poet Lawyer
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Monroeville
Alabama
Nelle Harper Lee
Everybody
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Love

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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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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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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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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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...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
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Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night
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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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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'm still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.
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You can choose your friends, but you sho' can't choose your family.
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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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We said good-bye, and Dill went inside the house. He evidently remembered he was engaged to me, for he ran back out and kissed me swiftly in front of Jem. Yawl write, hear? he bawled after us.
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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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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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