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Harper Lee, bürgerlich Nelle Lee , war eine US-amerikanische Schriftstellerin und Pulitzer-Preisträgerin. Ihr bis zum Juli 2015 einziges veröffentlichtes Buch Wer die Nachtigall stört verkaufte sich über 40 Millionen Mal. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. April 1926 – 19. Februar 2016
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„Aber wenn es nur eine Art von Menschen gibt, warum können sie dann nicht miteinander auskommen? Wenn sie alle gleich sind, warum haben sie dann nichts anderes im Kopf, als sich gegenseitig zu verabscheuen? Scout, so allmählich wird mir klar, weshalb Boo Radley die ganze Zeit im Haus bleibt… Er tut's, weil er drinbleiben will.“

York Notes: To Kill a Mockingbird
Variante: Aber wenn es nur eine Art von Menschen gibt, warum können sie dann nicht miteinander auskommen? Wenn sie alle gleich sind, warum haben sie dann nichts anderes im Kopf als sich gegenseitig zu verabscheuen? Scout, so allmählich wird mir was klar. So allmählich wird mir klar, weshalb Boo Radley die ganze Zeit im Haus bleibt... Er tut´s, weil er drinbleiben will

Harper Lee: Zitate auf Englisch

“Turtles don't feel, stupid," said Jem.

"Were you ever a turtle, huh?”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Most people are real nice, when you finally see them.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Pt. 2, ch. 31
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch & Atticus Finch
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: "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."

“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.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

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.
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

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.
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Pt. 2, ch. 23
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Pt. 1, ch. 10
Miss Maudie
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Pt. 1, ch. 11
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“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.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Pt. 1, ch. 10
Atticus Finch & Maudie Atkinson
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: "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."

“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“Things are never as bad as they seem.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus said naming people after Confederate generals made slow steady drinkers.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.
- Atticus Finch”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

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.
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Kontext: 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.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Pt.1, ch.11
Atticus Finch
Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“We're paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It's that simple.”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year.
Scout”

Harper Lee buch Wer die Nachtigall stört

Quelle: To Kill a Mockingbird

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