"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
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"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."
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"The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -"
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"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 in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy... and no money to buy it with."
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"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 one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
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"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
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"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 or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, 'I'm probably no better than you, but I'm certainly your equal."
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"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."
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"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 in the morning."
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"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 forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, he is trash."
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"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
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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 books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal."
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"Things are always better in the morning."
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"It's not necessary to tell all you know."
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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 write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write."
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"...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself."
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"summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat;it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape."
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"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."
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"Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan... The Ku Klux's gone... It'll never come back."
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"Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends."
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