But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
HARPER LEE
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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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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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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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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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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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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Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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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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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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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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