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Strength, strength is what I need; nothing can be done without strength; and strength must be gained by strength.

Nanny's words made Janie's kiss across the gatepost seem like a manure pile after a rain

She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.

There was silence. Then as if to refresh the power of destruction, the wind rose and the waves rose and through the house there lifted itself a sullen wave of doom which curled and crashed and the whole earth seemed ruining and washing away in water.

For Jan was still suffering from the romantic illusion–the cause of so much misery and so much poetry–that every man has only one real love in his life.

Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.

No wonder that people are becoming passive sponges—absorbing but never creating. Did you know that the average viewing time per person is now three hours a day? Soon people won’t be living their own lives any more. It will be a full-time job keeping up with the various family serials on TV!

He missed the prayers but he thought it would be unfair and hypocritical to say them and he did not wish to ask any favors or for any different treatment than all the men were receiving.

The judge murmured with a reptilian smile:

A percentage! What splendid words they have; they are so scientific, so consolatory.... Once you've said 'percentage' there's nothing more to worry about. If we had any other word... maybe we might feel more uneasy....

Naw, Jem, I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

-what are you doing in those overalls? You should be in a dress and camisole, young lady!-

During the sermon, the priest discussed the miracle of Immaculate Conception and the Virgin Birth. Virgin, my ass! Dad shouted. Mary was a sweet Jewish broad who got herself knocked up!

There are crimes that cannot be brought home to their perpetrators. Instance the Rogerses’. Another instance, old Wargrave, who committed his murder strictly within the law.

there are ways of doing things you dont't know about

You will find men like him in all the world’s religions. They know that we represent reason and science, and, however confident they may be in their beliefs, they fear that we will overthrow their gods. Not necessarily through any deliberate act, but in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.

She had never told us on, had never played cat-and-mouse with us, she was not at all interested in our private lives. She was our friend.

That I am a foreigner is not my fault. I would rather have been born here.

If you kin see de light at daybreak, you don’t keer if you die at dusk. It’s so many people never seen de light at all. Ah wuz fumblin’ round and God opened de door.

Miss Maudie stopped rocking, and her voice hardened. You are too young to understand it, she said, but sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of—oh, of your father.