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I do my best to love everybody

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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
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Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.
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Southern lawyers don't read novels much.
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Nothin’s real scary except in books.
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Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. The world's endin', Atticus! Please do something -! I dragged him to the window and pointed. No it's not, he said. It's snowing.
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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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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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When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.
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It's not time to worry yet
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The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.
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You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change...
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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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I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
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I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.
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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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