To Kill a Mockingbird Key Quotes

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'Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so'
"Hey, Mr Cunningham"
'things were utterly dull'
'I was more at home in my father's world'
'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 proch was enough.'

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"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."
"Atticus was feeble: he was nearly fifty"
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's concience."
"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand"
"There's nothing more sickening to me than a low-grade white man who'll take advantage of a *****'s ignorance"

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"He's been a faithful member of First Purchase since he was a boy"
'Tom Robinson's powerful shoulders rippled under his thin shirt...His left arm was fully twelve inches shorter than his right, and hung dead at his side'
'Tom's black velvet skin had begun to shine, and he ran his hand over his face'
"I didn't wanta puch her or nothin'"
"I felt right sorry for her"

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'a malevolent phantom'
'Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work'
'The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predeilection unforgivable in Maycomb'
"Will you take me home?' He almost whispered it, in the voice of a child afraid of the dark.'
'Soemone inside the house was laughing'

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