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Nelle Harper Lee, dite Harper Lee, née le 28 avril 1926 à Monroeville dans l'Alabama et morte le 19 février 2016 dans la même ville, est une romancière américaine connue pour son roman Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur , prix Pulitzer en 1961. Vendu à quarante millions d'exemplaires, ce livre est un classique de la littérature américaine, étudié à ce titre dans de nombreuses écoles secondaires des États-Unis, et régulièrement cité en tête des classements des critiques et libraires.

Elle reçoit en 2007 la médaille présidentielle de la Liberté du président George W. Bush pour sa contribution à la littérature,. Wikipedia  

✵ 28. avril 1926 – 19. février 2016
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“La seule chose qui ne doive pas céder à la loi de la majorité est la conscience de l'individu.”

To Kill a Mockingbird (Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur), 1960

Harper Lee: Citations en anglais

“Pass the damn ham, please.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Things are always better in the morning.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contexte: I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

“A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Pt. 2, ch. 20
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contexte: I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system — that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

“The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Pt. 2, ch. 23
Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contexte: The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you’ll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don’t you forget it — whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash.

“Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Pt. 2, ch. 25
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Contexte: In the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.

“It's not time to worry yet”

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Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passin'.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“They've done it before and they'll do it again and when they do it -- seems that only the children weep. Good night.”

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Variante: I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before and they did it tonight and they'll do it again and when they do it--seems that only children weep.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“That boy is your company. And if he wants to eat up that tablecloth, you let him, you hear?”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“There's a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep 'em all away from you. That's never possible.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father's one of them.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Pt. 2, ch. 12
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.”

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Pt. 1, ch. 9
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

“Try fighting with your head for a change…
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“I'm little but I'm old.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird

“A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.”

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Source: Go Set a Watchman

“Atticus had said it was the polite thing to talk to people about what they were interested in, not about what you were interested in.”

Harper Lee livre Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur

Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Pt. 2, ch. 16
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

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