"I know now what he was trying to……" — Harper Lee

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• I cannot find a faithful message-bearer," he wrote to his friend, the scholar Atticus. "How few are they who are… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Atticus Lish is a true original and this is a tremendous book, relentless, moving, written in prose of marvelous integrity.… — Sam Lipsyte
• Atticus, he was real nice." "Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them. — Harper Lee
• Summer, and he watches his children's heart break. Autumn again and Boo's children needed him. Atticus was right. One time… — Harper Lee
• Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. — Harper Lee
• Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers. — Harper Lee
• When I pointed to him his palms slipped slightly, leaving greasy sweat streaks on the wall, and he hooked his… — Harper Lee
• You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you… — Harper Lee
• Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away… — Harper Lee
• So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something - that a gang of… — Harper Lee
• I don't say anything and he casually leans against my desk, picking up the novel that's sitting there. "It's bullshit,"… — Melina Marchetta
• hold your head high and keep those fists down - Atticus Finch — Harper Lee

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