Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
("To Kill a Mockingbird")
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I could think of nothing else to say to her. In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us: How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma'am, how are you? Very well, thank you; what have you been doing with yourself? Nothin'. Don't you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothin'.Harper Lee
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.
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When it was time to play Boo's big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewingmachine drawer when Calpurnia's back was turned, then sit in the swing and cut up newspapers. Dill would walk by, cough at Jem, and Jem would fake a plunge into Dill's thigh. From where I stood it looked real.
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You're 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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That proves something- that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human.
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