Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces.
("To Kill a Mockingbird")
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.Harper Lee
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. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ~Atticus Finch
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Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.
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Asked him and he said he wasn't. Besides, nothin's real scary except on books.
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Talking to Francis gave me the sensation of settling slowly to the bottom of the ocean.
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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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