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Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own.

Harper Lee

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Harper Lee
Age: 89 †
Born: 1926
Born: April 28
Died: 2016
Died: February 19
Musician
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Poet Lawyer
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Screenwriter
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Monroeville
Alabama
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Writing is something you'll never learn in any university or at any school. It's something that is within you, and if it isn't there, nothing can put it there.
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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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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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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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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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