

“As you grow older, you鈥檒l see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don鈥檛 you forget it鈥攚henever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird

“Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.”
― Bartleby the Scrivener
― Bartleby the Scrivener

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
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“Atticus said to Jem one day, "I鈥檇 rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you鈥檒l go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays you want, if you can hit 鈥榚m, but remember it鈥檚 a sin to kill a mockingbird." That was the only time I ever heard Atticus say it was a sin to do something, and I asked Miss Maudie about it. "Your father鈥檚 right," she said. "Mockingbirds don鈥檛 do one thing except make music for us to enjoy. They don鈥檛 eat up people鈥檚 gardens, don鈥檛 nest in corn cribs, they don鈥檛 do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That鈥檚 why it鈥檚 a sin to kill a mockingbird.”
― To Kill a Mockingbird
― To Kill a Mockingbird

“manuscripts don't burn" - "(褉褍泻芯锌懈褋懈 薪械 谐芯褉褟褌)”
― The Master and Margarita
― The Master and Margarita

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