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Jem restrained me from further questions. He said Atticus was still touchous about us and the Radleys and it wouldn’t do to push him any. Jem

They’re certainly entitled to think that, and they’re entitled to full respect for their opinions,’ said Atticus, ‘but before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.’ When

Μα μερικές φορές η Βίβλος στα χέρια ενός ανθρώπου είναι χειρότερη απ' ό,τι ένα μπουκάλι ουίσκι στα χέρια του ...να

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad. I

Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer’s day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square. Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o’clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

Let’s try to make him come out, said Dill. I’d like to see what he looks like. Jem said if Dill wanted to get himself killed, all he had to do was go up and knock on the front door.

it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

in Alabama can’t—? I was indignant. I do. I guess it’s to protect our frail ladies from sordid cases like Tom’s. Besides, Atticus grinned, I doubt if we’d ever get a complete case tried—the

simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally. This one’s mine, I guess.

I wish Bob Ewell wouldn't chew tobacco." was all Atticus said about it. According to Miss Stephanie Crawford, however, Atticus was leaving the post office when Mr. Ewell approached him, cursed him, spat on him, and threatened to kill him...Miss Stephanie said Atticus didn't bat an eye, just took out his handkerchief and wiped his face and stood there and let Mr. Ewell call him names wild horses could not bring her to repeat.

Atticus was right. One time he said you never really know a man until you stand in his shoes and walk around in them. Just standing on the Radley porch was enough. The

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.

Besides, nothin’s real scary except in books. Atticus

to us. That was the one thing that made me think, well, this may be the shadow of a beginning. That jury took a few hours. An inevitable verdict, maybe, but usually it takes ’em just a few minutes. This time— he broke off and looked at us. You might like to know that there was one fellow who took considerable wearing down—in the beginning he was rarin’ for an outright acquittal.

Bimba mia, non è mai una vergogna sentirsi buttare addosso una parolaccia. Dimostra soltanto quanto sia meschina la persona che te la dice: a te non può fare alcun male.

Atticus had urged them to accept the state’s generosity in allowing them to plead Guilty to second-degree murder and escape with their lives, but they were Haverfords, in Maycomb County a name synonymous with

around the house to get in, but he run out the front door just ahead of me. I sawed who he was, all right. I was too distracted about Mayella to run after’im. I run in the house and she was lyin’ on the floor squallin’— Then what did you

but things like long life ’n’ good health, ’n’ passin’ six-weeks tests . . .

The jail was Maycomb’s only conversation piece: its detractors said it looked like a Victorian privy; its supporters said it gave the town a good solid respectable look, and no stranger would ever suspect that it was full of niggers. As

Hepimiz hemen masanın çevresine toplandık, herkes kendince öğretmeni teselli etmeye çalışıyordu. Çok aşağılık biri... bel altına vuruyor... sizi bu tür çocuklara öğretmenlik etmek için çağırmadılar... Maycomblular öyle değildir, Bayan Caroline, inanın... üzülmeyin artık, efendim. Bayan Caroline, haydi bize bir hikaye okuyun. Bu sabah okuduğunuz o kedi şeyi vardı ya, çok güzeldi...

وقتی یک بچه چیزی ازت می‌پرسه، محض رضای خدا جواب سربالا بهش نده. صاف و ساده مطلب را براش توضیح بده. بچه‌ها بچه‌اند، اما اگه بهشون راست نگید رودتر از بزرگ‌ها متوجه میشن و جواب سربالا بدتر گیجشون می‌کنه.

اما من قبل از اینکه با دیگران بتونم زندگی کنم، باید بتونم با خودم زندگی کنم. وجدان آدم تنها چیزیه که نمی‌تونه تابع نظر اکثریت باشه.