"I came to the conclusion that people were just peculiar, I withdrew from them, and never thought about them until I was forced to."
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"I have nothing but gratitude for the people who made the film. It was a most unusual experience. I'm no judge, and the only film I've ever seen made was Mockingbird, but there seemed to be an aura of good feeling on the set. I went out and looked at them filming a little of it, and there seemed to be such a general kindness, perhaps even respect, for the material they were working with. I was delighted, touched, happy, and exceedingly grateful."
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"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 under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences."
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
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"You see they could never, never understand that I live like I do because that's the way I want to live."
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"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! Please do something -!" I dragged him to the window and pointed. "No it's not," he said. "It's snowing."
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"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 small internal noises that went on behind the light blue cloth: his watch ticking, the faint crackle of his starched shirt, the soft sound of his breathing. 'Your stomach's growling,' I said. 'I know it,' he said."
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"I'm little but I'm old."
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"I've been writing as long as I've been able to form words. I never wrote with an idea of publishing anything until I began working on '[To Kill a] Mockingbird'. I think that what went before may have been a rather subconscious form of learning how to write, of training myself."
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"I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin' after you."
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"She's an old lady and she's ill. You just hold your head high and be a gentleman. Whatever she says to you, it's your job not to let her make you mad."
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"We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us."
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"Cecil Jacobs is a big wet hen!"
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"I'm Charles Baker Harris...I can read"
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"Scout, I´m telling you for the last time, shut your trap or go home - I declare to the Lord you´re gettin´ more like a girl every day!” With that, I had no option but to join them."
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"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 food. Do it, and you'll often get an answer you don't want."
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"About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other."
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"Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem. "Were you ever a turtle, huh?"
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"Folks were doin' a lot of runnin' that night"
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"Don't you study about other folks's business till you take care of your own."
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