Scout: cap. 2
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Atticus Finch
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Frasi sugli uomini di Harper Lee
Atticus Finch: cap. 20
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Sceriffo Tate: p. 301, 1998
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee Frasi e Citazioni
To Kill a Mockingbird
Variante: Aver coraggio significa sapere di essere sconfitti prima ancora di cominciare, e cominciare egualmente e arrivare sino in fondo, qualsiasi cosa succeda. È raro vincere in questi casi, ma qualche volta succede.
Atticus Finch: cap 11
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Variante: Prima di vivere con gli altri, bisogna che viva con me stesso: la coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.
Atticus Finch: cap. 11
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Variante: Volevo che tu imparassi una cosa da lei: volevo che tu vedessi che cosa è il vero coraggio, tu che credi che sia rappresentato da un uomo col fucile in mano. Aver coraggio significa sapere di essere sconfitti prima ancora di cominciare, e cominciare egualmente e arrivare fino in fondo, qualsiasi cosa succeda. È raro vincere, in questi casi, ma qualche volta si vince.
Scout: cap. 2
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To Kill a Mockingbird
Origine: Il buio oltre la siepe, p. 313, 1998
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Miss Maudie: p. 53, 1998
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Atticus Finch: cap. 9
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Origine: Il buio oltre la siepe, p. 287, 2010
To Kill a Mockingbird
“La coscienza è l'unica cosa che non debba conformarsi al volere della maggioranza.”
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harper Lee: Frasi in inglese
“Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem.
"Were you ever a turtle, huh?”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Most people are real nice, when you finally see them.”
Pt. 2, ch. 31
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch & Atticus Finch
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contesto: "An' they chased him 'n' never could catch him 'cause they didn't know what he looked like, an' Atticus, when they finally saw him, why he hadn't done any of those things... Atticus, he was real nice..."
"Most people are, Scout, when you finally see them."
Variante: 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.
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Pt. 1, ch. 2
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variante: I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”
Pt. 2, ch. 23
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Miss Maudie
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Pt. 1, ch. 10
Atticus Finch & Maudie Atkinson
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contesto: "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." 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's right," she said. "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."
“Things are never as bad as they seem.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
“They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Atticus Finch
Variante: Courage is not a man with a gun in his hand. It's knowing you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contesto: 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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 11
Atticus Finch
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt.1, ch.11
Atticus Finch
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Pt. 1, ch. 9
Atticus Finch
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird
“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”
Origine: To Kill a Mockingbird