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- Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with…
- Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to understand.
- I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system -- that is no ideal to me, it…
- I like to write. Sometimes I'm afraid that I like it too much because when I get into work I don't want to leave it.…
- Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
- He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up…
- That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?
- If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of…
- Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do…
- I don't want to hear any words like that while I'm here. Scout, you'll get in trouble if you go around saying things like that.…
- When they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things . . . Atticus, he was real nice. . . .†His…
- 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.…
- 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…
- I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fishpool smoking string, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley…
- 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…
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