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From Quotes by Harper Lee
- Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're…
- When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.
- You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
- I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always…
- Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine…
- As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you…
- I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making…
- 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…
- Dill?" Mm?" Why do you reckon Boo Radleys never run off?" Dill sighed a long sigh and turned away from me. Maybe he doesn't have…
- Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they…
- Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo: Boo was about six-and-a-half feet tall, judging from his tracks; he dined on raw squirrels and any cats…
- Next morning I awoke, looked out the window and nearly died of fright. My screams brought Atticus from his bathroom half-shaven. "The world's endin', Atticus!…
- Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to…
- Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my…
- There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.
- I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to.
- From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries.
- Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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