"Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
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"Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts."
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"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 do."
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"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 than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language."
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"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
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"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 know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough."
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"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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"Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum."
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"People in their right minds never take pride in their talents."
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"Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men."
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"I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks."
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"Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another."
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"Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives."
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"You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change..."
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"You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
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"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."
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"Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books."
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"Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself."
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"My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse."
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"There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible."
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