Harper Lee
"Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she"Why sure," said Jem. "I liked her when I was in her room."She hates Hitler a lot . . ."What's wrong with that"Well, she went on today about how bad it was him treating the Jews like that. Jem, it's not right to persecute anybody, is it? I mean have mean thoughts about anybody, even, is it"Gracious no, Scout. What's eatin' you"Well, coming out of the courthouse that night Miss Gates was--- she was going' down the steps in front of us, you musta not seen her--- she was talking with Miss Stephanie Crawford. I heard her say it's time somebody time somebody taught 'em a lesson, they were gettin' way above themelves, an' the next thing they think they can do is marry us. Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home---"
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"Miss Gates is a nice lady, ain't she"Why sure," said Jem. "I liked her when I was in her room."She hates Hitler a lot . . ."What's wrong with that"Well, she went on today about how bad it was him treating the Jews like that. Jem, it's not right to persecute anybody, is it? I mean have mean thoughts about anybody, even, is it"Gracious no, Scout. What's eatin' you"Well, coming out of the courthouse that night Miss Gates was--- she was going' down the steps in front of us, you musta not seen her--- she was talking with Miss Stephanie Crawford. I heard her say it's time somebody time somebody taught 'em a lesson, they were gettin' way above themelves, an' the next thing they think they can do is marry us. Jem, how can you hate Hitler so bad an' then turn around and be ugly about folks right at home---"
"الآنسة غيتس سيدة لطيفة، أليس كذلك؟"بالتأكيد،" قال جيم. "أحببتها عندما كنت في صفها."إنها تكره هتلر كثيرًا... "وما الخطأ في ذلك؟"حسنًا، لقد تحدثت اليوم عن مدى فظاعة معاملته لليهود بتلك الطريقة. جيم، ليس من الصواب اضطهاد أي شخص، أليس كذلك؟ أعني، حتى مجرد التفكير بأفكار سيئة عن أي شخص، أليس كذلك؟"يا إلهي لا يا سكاوت. ما الذي يزعجك؟"حسنًا، عندما كنا نخرج من المحكمة تلك الليلة، كانت الآنسة غيتس – كانت تنزل الدرج أمامنا، لا بد أنك لم ترها – كانت تتحدث مع الآنسة ستيفاني كروفورد. سمعتها تقول إنه حان الوقت ليعلمهم أحدهم درسًا، لقد أصبحوا يتجاوزون حدودهم كثيرًا، والشيء التالي الذي سيعتقدون أنهم يستطيعون فعله هو الزواج منا. جيم، كيف يمكنك أن تكره هتلر بشدة ثم تلتفت وتكون قبيحًا تجاه الناس هنا في الوطن؟"
Harper Lee
"I wanted you see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand."
"أردتُ أن أريكَ ما هي الشجاعة الحقيقية، بدلًا من أن تظنّ أن الشجاعة هي رجلٌ يحمل مسدسًا في يده."
Harper Lee
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
"المكان الوحيد الذي ينبغي أن ينال فيه المرء معاملة عادلة هو قاعة المحكمة، مهما كان لونه أو عرقه، لكن الناس يجدون سبيلاً لحمل ضغائنهم معهم إلى صندوق المحلفين."
Harper Lee
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
"المكان الوحيد الذي ينبغي أن ينال فيه المرء معاملة عادلة هو قاعة المحكمة، مهما كان لونه أو عرقه، لكن الناس جبلوا على حمل أحقادهم معهم إلى صندوق المحلفين."
Harper Lee
"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be heany colour of the rainbow, but people have way to carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
"المكان الوحيد الذي ينبغي أن ينال فيه المرء معاملة عادلة هو قاعة المحكمة، مهما كان لونه من ألوان الطيف، لكن الناس جُبلوا على حمل أحقادهم معهم إلى صندوق المحلفين."
Harper Lee
"Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful."Ain't hateful, just persuades him- 's not like you'd chunk him in the fire," Jem growled."How do you know a match don't hurt him"Turtles can't feel , stupid," said Jem."Were you ever a turtle, huh?"
"قال ديل إن إشعال عود ثقاب تحت سلحفاة أمر بغيض.
"ليس بغيضاً، بل يقنعه وحسب – ليس وكأنك سترميه في النار،" تمتم جيم.
"كيف تعرف أن عود الثقاب لا يؤذيه؟"
"السلاحف لا تشعر، أيها الغبي،" قال جيم.
"هل كنت سلحفاة يوماً، ها؟"
Harper Lee
"I do wish this time you'd try to dress better while you're home. Folks in town get the wrong impression of you. They think you are--ah--slumming."
"أتمنى هذه المرة أن تحاول ارتداء ملابس أفضل وأنت في المنزل. فالناس في البلدة يأخذون عنك انطباعًا خاطئًا. يظنون أنك – آه – تتظاهر بالفقر."
Harper Lee
"I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick"
"أنصح كل من يطمح إلى مهنة الكتابة بأن من الحكمة له، قبل أن ينمّي موهبته، أن ينمّي جلدًا سميكًا."
Harper Lee
"In their own way, Tom Robinson's manners were as good as Atticus's"
"كانت أخلاق توم روبنسون، بطريقته الخاصة، لا تقلّ روعة عن أخلاق أتيكوس."
Harper Lee
"As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons."
"بقدر ما الزمن حقيقة لا مراء فيها، يعيد التاريخ نفسه، وبقدر ما الإنسان إنسان، فإن التاريخ هو آخر مكان سيبحث فيه عن دروسه."
Harper Lee
"You confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings – I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers."
"تلبّس عليك الأمر فخلطت بين أبيك والله. لم تره قطّ رجلاً بقلب رجل، وبنقائص رجل – أقرّ لك بأن رؤية ذلك قد تكون صعبة، فهو قلّما يخطئ، لكنه يخطئ مثلنا جميعاً. كنتَ عاجزاً عاطفياً، تتكئ عليه، تستمدّ منه الإجابات، مفترضاً أن إجاباتك ستكون دائماً إجاباته."
Harper Lee
"I never deliberately learned to read, but somehow I had been wallowing illicitly in the daily papers. In the long hours of church--was it then I learned? I could not remember not being able to read hymns. Now that I was compelled to think about it, reading was something that just came to me, as learning to fasten the seat of my union suit without looking around, or achieving two bows from a snarl of shoelaces. I could not remember when the lines above Atticus's moving finger separated into words. But I had stared at them all the evenings in my memory, listening to the news of the day, Bills to Be Enacted into Laws, the diaries of Lorenzo Dow--anything Atticus happened to be reading when I crawled into his lap every night. Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing."
Harper Lee
"I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-" "I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom."It's the same thing. Humility."
Harper Lee
"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... Mockingbirds don't do one thing to but make music for us to enjoy. They don't eat up people's garden, 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."
Harper Lee
"Every man's island, Jean Louise, every man's watchman, is his conscience. There is no such thing as a collective conscience."
Harper Lee
"The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that it's government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in. The only thing in America that is still unique in this tired world is that a man can go as far as his brains will take him or he can go to hell if he wants to, but it won't be that way much longer."
Harper Lee
"The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in"
Harper Lee
"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman. You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."
Harper Lee
"The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think."
Harper Lee
"Whatever she says to you, it’s your jobnot to let her make you mad."
Harper Lee
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