Diane PerezMrs. Reif

Ap Language & Composition

Period 2

Author’s Quote Project

― Lee Harper, To Kill a Mockingbird

“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.”

― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

“But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Side of Paradise

“It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.”

― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”

“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Walden and Other Writings

“Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.”

― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“To be able to forget means sanity.” ― Jack London,

The Star Rover

“After all, tomorrow is another day!” ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

― Toni Morrison,

Beloved

“You are your best thing”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”

Works Cited

➔ Harper, Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960. Print➔ Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. 1952.

Print➔ Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Side of Paradise. 1920. Print➔ Steinbeck, John. The Winter of Our Discontent. 1961.

Print➔ Thoreau, Henry David. Walden and Other

Writings.1854. Print➔ Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

1885. Print➔ London, Jack. The Star Rover. 1915. Print ➔ Mitchell, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. 1936. Print ➔ Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987. Print ➔ Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. 1953. Print