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To Kill a Mockingbird - Key Quotes
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- 1Maycomb - 3"One sprig of nut-grass can ruin your entire yard."
"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it"
"Men's stiff collars wilted by nine" - 2Calpurnia"lead a modest double life"
"now what if i talked white folks talk at church, and with my neighbours" - 3Gender - 3"Scout, I'm tellin' you for the last time shut your trap or go home, I declare to the lord your gettin' more like a girl every day."
"by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl"
"Miss Maudie can't serve on a jury because she's a woman." - 4Courage - 3"It was at times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived."
"It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - 5Empathy - 2"You never really understand a person until you see things from their point of view, until you climb inside their skin and walk around in it"
"before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself" - 6Justice and Judgement - 2"well most folks think that they're right and you're wrong"
"evil assumption-that all Negroes lie" - 7Racism - 3"I seen that black nigger yonder ruttin' on my Mayella"
"she did something that in our society is unspeakable, she kissed a black man."
"To Maycomb, Toms death was typical. Typical of a nigger to cut and run" - 8Innocence - 3"there's just one kind of folks, folks."
"the world's ending" (snow)
"his shoulders jerked as if each 'guilty' was a separate stab between them" - 9Boo Radley - 3"Boo was six and a half feet tall, judging by his tracks"
"Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom"
"Sickly white hands that had never seen the sun" - 10Dill - 3"Dill was a curiosity"
"Cry about the hell white people give coloured folks without stopping to think that they're people, too."
I aint' cynical, miss Alexandra. Tellin' the truth's not cynical is it? - 11Atticus - 3"before I can live with other folks, I've got to live with myself"
"It was at times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.""It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." - 12Scout - 3"I declare to the Lord you're getting' more like a girl every day!"
"He likened Tom's death to the senseless slaughter of songbirds by hunters and children…"
"Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension" - 13Jem - 2"his shoulders jerked as if each 'guilty' was a separate stab between them"
"I declare to the Lord you're getting' more like a girl every day!"
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