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  • #1
    Ray Bradbury
    “You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #2
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #3
    Harper Lee
    “People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #4
    Harper Lee
    “Atticus said to Jem one day, "I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the backyard, but I know you’ll go after birds. Shoot all the blue jays 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 except make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corn cribs, 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, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #5
    Harper Lee
    “Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #6
    Harper Lee
    “People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #7
    Harper Lee
    “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.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #8
    Harper Lee
    “With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #9
    Harper Lee
    “You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #10
    Harper Lee
    “There are just some kind of men who-who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #11
    Harper Lee
    “Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them." "Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.”
    Harper Lee

  • #12
    Harper Lee
    “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view—”

    “Sir?”

    “—until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.”
    Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

  • #13
    George Harrison
    “If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
    George Harrison

  • #14
    Lewis Carroll
    “But I don’t want to go among mad people," Alice remarked.
    "Oh, you can’t help that," said the Cat: "we’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad."
    "How do you know I’m mad?" said Alice.
    "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn’t have come here.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #15
    Lewis Carroll
    “It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #16
    Lewis Carroll
    “If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see?”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"
    "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to."
    "I don't much care where –"
    "Then it doesn't matter which way you go.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #18
    Lewis Carroll
    “Everything is funny, if you can laugh at it.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #19
    Lewis Carroll
    “I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

  • #20
    Lewis Carroll
    “In a Wonderland they lie, Dreaming as the days go by, Dreaming as the summers die:
    Ever drifting down the stream- Lingering in the golden gleam- Life, what is it but a dream?”
    Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

  • #21
    Lewis Carroll
    “I don't think..." then you shouldn't talk, said the Hatter.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #22
    Lewis Carroll
    “Do you know, I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too? I never saw one alive before!"

    Well, now that we have seen each other," said the unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland: and Through The Looking Glass

  • #23
    Lewis Carroll
    “Why it's simply impassible!
    Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
    Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #24
    Lewis Carroll
    “One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #25
    Lewis Carroll
    “If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

  • #26
    Lewis Carroll
    “If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.”
    Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

  • #27
    Lewis Carroll
    “He was part of my dream, of course -- but then I was part of his dream, too.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #28
    Lewis Carroll
    “Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them."
    I see nobody on the road." said Alice.
    I only wish I had such eyes,"the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #29
    Lewis Carroll
    “It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.”
    Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

  • #30
    Lewis Carroll
    “If you set to work to believe everything, you will tire out the believing-muscles of your mind, and then you'll be so weak you won't be able to believe the simplest true things.”
    Lewis Carroll



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