"Mr. Avery said it was written on the……" — Harper Lee
"Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves."
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189 Quotes by Harper Lee
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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…
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I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is…
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Wordsworth was right when he said that we trail clouds of glory as we come into the world, that we…
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Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who…
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Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms,…
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Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood,
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Somewhere, I had received the impression that Fine Folks were people who did the best they could with the sense…
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Why reasonable people go stark raving mad when anything involving a Negro comes up, is something I don't pretend to…
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I didn't expect the book to sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death…
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As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else for…
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with…
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More Aberration Quotes
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of…
— Francis Bacon
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under…
— Ilka Chase
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One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in…
— Jeff Cooper
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Far from being an aberration that is not representative of Christianity, the persecution of heretics follows logically from the connection…
— Shadia Drury
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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every…
— Jean Lorrain
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The throwaway economy that has been evolving over the last half-century is an aberration, now itself headed for the junk…
— Lester R. Brown
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It had been held that the economic system, any capitalist system, found its equilibrium at full employment. Left to itself,…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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The world is a collective madhouse, its inhabitants are merely faking sanity. It is critical to becoming aware of these…
— John Astin
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Homosexuality appeared as one of the forms of sexuality when it was transposed from the practice of sodomy into a…
— Michel Foucault
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By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
— Emile M. Cioran
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The Christian view that all intercourse outside marriage is immoral was, as we see in the above passages from St.…
— Bertrand Russell
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