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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.

  Harper Lee

  Summer, Children, Heart

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• That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?

  Harper Lee

  Boys, Want, Mockingbird

  Horton Foote, Harper Lee (1964). “The screenplay of To kill a mockingbird”

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• When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

  Harper Lee

  Brother, Broken, Elbows

  Joyce Milton, Harper Lee (1984). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.30, Barron's Educational Series

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• Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Desire, Bunch

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.31, Infobase Publishing

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• I remember when my daddy gave me that gun. He told me that I should never point it at anything in the house; and that he'd rather I'd shoot at tin cans in the backyard. But he said that sooner or later he supposed the temptation to go after birds would be too much, and that I could shoot all the blue jays I wanted - if I could hit 'em; but to remember it was a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Gun, Blue, Tin Cans

  "Fictional character: Atticus Finch". "To Kill a Mockingbird", www.imdb.com. 1962.

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• Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Long, Alive

  "Harper Lee says claim that new memoir has her blessing is 'a falsehood'" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2014.

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• I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film I've ever seen made was Mockingbird, but there seemed to be an aura of good feeling on the set. I went out and looked at them filming a little of it, and there seemed to be such a general kindness, perhaps even respect, for the material they were working with. I was delighted, touched, happy, and exceedingly grateful.

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  Gratitude, Kindness, Grateful

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• In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose.

  Harper Lee

  Believe, Mind, Purpose

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

  Harper Lee

  Remember, Sin, Mockingbird

  To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) ch. 10

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• Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.

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  Children, Tkam, Attention

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Southern lawyers don't read novels much.

  Harper Lee

  Southern, Lawyer, Novel

  "The Interrogation of ‘Mockingbird’ Author Harper Lee (Guest Blog)". www.thewrap.com. July 16, 2014.

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness’ sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles ‘em. No... you had the right answer this afternoon, but the wrong reasons. Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it. Hotheadedness isn’t.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, July 11, 1960.

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• Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.

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  Children, War, Parent

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• You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

  Harper Lee

  Hate, Writing, Artist

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• When you're at the top, there's only one way to go.

  Harper Lee

  Way, One Way

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• When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his thumbs in his belt. A strange spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face. His lips parted into a timid smile, and our neighbor’s image blurred with my sudden tears. “Hey, Boo,” I said. “Mr. Arthur, honey,” said Atticus, gently correcting me. “Jean Louise, this is Mr. Arthur Radley. I believe he already knows you.

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  Wall, Believe, Sweat

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• One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

  Harper Lee

  Lying, Acceptance, Certain

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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

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  Jobs, Anger, Mad

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Havin' a gun around's an invitation to somebody to shoot you.

  Harper Lee

  Gun, Invitations

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• I don't hafta take his sass

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  Sass

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for us to learn, except possibly algebra.

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  Home, Literature, Way

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Mutual defiance made them alike.

  Harper Lee

  Made, Finches, Defiance

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Let the dead bury the dead.

  Harper Lee

  Tkam, Mockingbird, Kill A Mockingbird

  Christopher Sergel, Harper Lee (1995). “The Play of To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.102, Heinemann

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• Again, as I had often met it in my own church, I was confronted with the Impurity of Women doctrine that seemed to preoccupy all clergymen.

  Harper Lee

  Church, Doctrine, Clergymen

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake.

  Harper Lee

  Children, Tkam, Sake

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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