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I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.

You got to understand that as soon as a man goes to help someone, he leaves himself wide open.

Что ж поделать, простите меня. Я беженка из прошлого и, как все беженцы, вспоминаю обычаи и привычки бытия, которое бросила или вынуждена была бросить, и все они отсюда мнятся причудливыми, а я – ими одержимой. Как белогвардеец в Париже, что пьет чай, заблудившись в двадцатом веке, я влекусь назад, тщусь вновь обрести далекие тропы; сентиментальничаю без меры, теряюсь. Рыдаю. Это рыдания, не плач. Сижу на стуле и истекаю влагой, как губка.

I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.

What on earth could Ewell do to me, sister? Something furtive, Aunt Alexandra said. You may count on that. Nobody has much chance to be furtive in Maycomb, Atticus answered.

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it callitself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to expressmyself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly asI can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning.

O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair, and smell'st so sweet,

Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats?

He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know we were happy, even then? Because we at least had that: arms, around.

What he might call cowardice other people called common sense.

Мужество — это когда заранее знаешь, что ты проиграл, и всё-таки берёшься за дело и наперекор всему на свете идёшь до конца.

you can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t. That’s

He waited for some moments, listening, before he too took up the air with them. He was listening with pain of spirit to the overtone of weariness behind their frail fresh innocent voices. Even before they set out on life's journey they seemed weary already of the way.

But come what may, I do adore thee so That danger shall seem sport, and I will go!

In this way the squad has merely made the turn-about and a couple of paces, while the squad-leader dashes backwards and forwards like a fart on a curtain-pole.

I am not being wasted. Why do I want?

As soon as one strip of husk was down, the rest obeyed and the ear yielded up to him its shy rows, exposed at last. How loose the silk. How quick the jailed-up flavor ran free. No matter what all your teeth and wet fingers anticipated, there was no accounting for the way that simple joy could shake you. How loose the silk. How fine and loose and free.

No matter what anybody says to you, don’t you let ’em get your goat. Try fighting with your head for a change . . . it’s a good one, even if it does resist learning. Atticus, are we going to win it? No, honey. Then, why— Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win, Atticus said. You

All right, I’ll dance with you, she said, before Yossarian could even speak. But I won’t let you sleep with me. Who asked you? Yossarian asked her. You don’t want to sleep with me? she exclaimed with surprise. I don’t want to dance with you.

This race and this country and this life produced me, he said I shall express myself as I am.