“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.”
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“And never have I felt so deeply
at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
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at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.”
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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.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird
The American Novel Since 1945
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