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Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama.
* She was the youngest of four children.
* Her father was a lawyer and her mother was a homemaker.
* Lee was a precocious reader and writer.
* She attended Huntingdon College and the University of Alabama.
* After graduating, she moved to New York City to pursue a career in writing.
* In 1960, she published her first and only novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.
* The novel was a critical and commercial success, winning the Pulitzer Prize and becoming a classic of American literature.
* Lee died on February 19, 2016, at the age of 89.

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

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Inspirational

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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 faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.

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Wisdom

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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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Truth

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

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Love

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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.

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Love

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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.

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Life

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As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don't think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal.

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Life

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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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Faith

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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent.

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Writing

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Don’t talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.