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Вариант: Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Finders were keepers unless title was proven.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Don’t push her. Let her go at her own speed. Push her and every mule in the county’d be easier to live with.”

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Harper Lee книга Go Set a Watchman

Источник: Go Set a Watchman

“Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus---"… said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?"
"I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt. 2, ch. 22
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Контексте: "I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them."
"Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."

“I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody…”

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Harper Lee книга Go Set a Watchman

Источник: Go Set a Watchman

“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”

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“Long ago, in a burst of friendliness, Aunty and Uncle Jimmy produced a son named Henry…”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“You can pet him, Mr. Arthur. He's asleep…”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I guess it’s like an airplane: they’re the drag and we’re the thrust, together we make the thing fly. Too much of us and we’re nose-heavy, too much of them and we’re tail-heavy—it’s a matter of balance.”

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Harper Lee книга Go Set a Watchman

Источник: Go Set a Watchman

“I didn't know how you were going to do it, but from now on I'll never worry about what'll become of you, son, you'll always have an idea.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“When stalking one’s prey, it is best to take one’s time. Say nothing, and as sure as eggs he will become curious and emerge.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Nothing is more deadly than a deserted, waiting street.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Go away, the old buildings said. There is no place for you here. You are not wanted. We have secrets.”

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Harper Lee книга Go Set a Watchman

Источник: Go Set a Watchman

“A mob's always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know--doesn't say much for them, does it?”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened 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; but most of all, summer was Dill.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Вариант: 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.
Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“What does a bigot do when he meets someone who challenges his opinions? He doesn’t give. He stays rigid. Doesn’t even try to listen, just lashes out.”

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Harper Lee книга Go Set a Watchman

Источник: Go Set a Watchman

“I say guilt, gentlemen, because it was guilt that motivated her. She has committed no crime, she has merely broken a rigid and time-honored code of our society.”

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Harper Lee книга To Kill a Mockingbird

Источник: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I can't beat you, I can't join you.”

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Harper Lee книга Go Set a Watchman

Источник: Go Set a Watchman