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Harper Lee

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About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.


— Harper Lee


#humor

Whatever she says to you, it’s your job not to let her make you mad.


— Harper Lee


#anger

Courage is when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.


— Harper Lee


#atticus-finch #courage

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.


— Harper Lee


#inspirational

Jem, I ain't ever heard of a nigger snowman," I said.


— Harper Lee


#humor

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.


— Harper Lee


#dilemma #reasons #society #life

I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.


— Harper Lee


#reading #love

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read


— Harper Lee


#love

Jem, naturally, was Boo: he went under the front steps and shrieked and howled from time to time.


— Harper Lee


#nature

There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads—they couldn’t be fair if they tried.


— Harper Lee


#win #men






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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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