She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
HARPER LEEIt was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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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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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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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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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 one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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