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- I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you're working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup…
- Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we are born with a divine…
- Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby…
- 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…
- Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
- 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…
- Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?†“Turtles can't feel, stupid,†said Jem.…
- It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more…
- 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…
- There was nowhere to go, but I turned to go and met Atticus's vest front. I buried my head in it and listened to the…
- I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.
- It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike--in the second place, folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they…
- A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man.…
- I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work.
- If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a…
- You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
- Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
- It's not necessary to tell all you know.
- 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…
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