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Tony Danza
“Never smile before Christmas,” he warned. “Smiling puts you at their mercy, they’ll eat you alive.”
With everything you have to do for school, who’s got anything left for a marriage or family?
“Have the courage to be calm.”
Monte looks down at his copy of Mockingbird. He leafs through it until he gets to a scene in which Atticus is explaining to his daughter, Scout, why it’s a mistake to judge people on the basis of their appearance. Monte reads, “ ‘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.” “Would you consider a truce?” I ask.
Learning, most of this country seems to think, is like medicine that we know we need but refuse to take unless somebody makes it so entertaining that we forget to think it tastes bad.
