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1 " But before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. "
― , Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
2 " Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden "
― , The Outsiders (the Play)
3 " Johnny died. "
4 " I was to be a ham "
5 " Atticus, forse ti sbagli...""Come hai detto?""Quasi tutti sembrano pensare di aver ragione loro, e che tu, invece, abbia torto...""Hanno sicuramente il diritto di pensarlo, come noi abbiamo il dovere di rispettare le loro opinioni", disse Atticus, "ma prima di vivere con gli altri io devo vivere con me stesso. L'unica cosa che non è tenuta a rispettare il volere della maggioranza è la coscienza "
6 " I don't hafta take his sass "
7 " She was one of the rare ones, so effortlessly herself, and the world loved her for it. "
8 " I lay on my stomach, reached down and poked him. He rolled up. Then, feeling safe, I suppose, he slowly unrolled. He travelled a few inches in his hundred legs and I touched him again. He rolled up. Feeling sleepy, I decided to end things. My hand was going down on him when Jem spoke. "
9 " The law says 'reasonable doubt,' but I think a defendant's entitled to the shadow of a doubt. There's always the possibility, no matter how improbable, that he's innocent. "
10 " What I meant was, if Atticus Finch drank until he was drunk, he wouldn't be as hard as some men at their best. There are just some kind of me 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. "
11 " Kind, du darfst dich nie beleidigt fühlen, wenn jemand dir etwas nachruft, was er als Schimpfnamen betrachtet. Das zeigt nur, was für ein armseliger Mensch der andere ist, es verletzt nicht. "
12 " You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb into his skin and walk around in it. "
13 " Vor allem, Scout', sagte er, 'musst du einen ganz einfachen Trick lernen, dann wirst du viel besser mit Menschen aller Art auskommen. Man kann einen anderen nur richtig verstehen, wenn man die Dinge von seinem Gesichtspunkt aus beachtet "
14 " Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.- Atticus Finch "
15 " From now on it’ll be everybody less one. "
16 " Miss Caroline parecía no darse cuenta que los andrajosos alumnos de la primera clase, los cuales habían cortado algodón y cebado puercos desde que supieron andar, eran inmunes a la literatura de imaginación "
17 " The night-crawlers had retired, but ripe chinaberries drummed on the roof when the wind stirred, and the darkness was desolate with the barking of distant dog. "
18 " Don't matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house's yo' company, and don't ... remarking on their ways like you was so high and mighty. Yo' folks might be better ... bu tit don't count for nothin' the way you're discracin' 'em. "
19 " Grandma says all men should learn to cook, that men oughta be careful with their wives and wait on 'em when they don't feel good.' said my cousin. "
20 " That's what I thought, too, when I was your age. If there's just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go out of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I'm beginning to understand something. I think I'm beggining to understand why Boo Radley's stayed shut up in the house all the time. . . it's because he wants to stay inside. "