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Harper Lee

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Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.


— Harper Lee


#life

Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.


— Harper Lee


#courage

I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read


— Harper Lee


#humor

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.


— Harper Lee


#racism #truth #men

Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?


— Harper Lee


#empathy #judgement #judgement

I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you.


— Harper Lee


#love #missing #love

You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live.


— Harper Lee


#life

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.


— Harper Lee


#humor #to-kill-a-mockingbird #humor

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.


— Harper Lee


#jem #funny

She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.


— Harper Lee


#spiritual #inspirational






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It remains a bestseller with more than 30 million copies in print. The following month at the Browns' East 50th townhouse Harper Lee received a gift of a year's wages from them with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. [citation needed]
Lee arrived in New York City in 1949 aged 23.

Nelle Harper Lee (born April 28 1926) is an American author known for her 1961 Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird which deals with the issues of racism that the author observed as a child in her hometown of Monroeville Alabama. Lee has received numerous honorary degrees but has always declined to make a speech. Despite being Lee's only publiHarper Leed book it led to her being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.

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