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Harper Lee [1926-2016] American
Rank: 101
Novelist


Nelle Harper Lee, better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature.

Courage, Home, Success



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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Success
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. Courage
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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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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf. Home
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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
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From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
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