˝Hush your mouth! Don’t matte...

"Hush your mouth! Don’t matter who they are, anybody sets foot in this house’s yo’ comp’ny, and don’t you let me catch you remarkin’ on their ways like you was so high and mighty! Yo’ folks might be better’n the Cunninghams but it don’t count for nothin’ the way you’re disgracin’ ’em—if you can’t act fit to eat at the table you can just set here and eat in the kitchen!" - P34

"First of all," he said, "if you can learn a simple trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. 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." - P40

Being Southerners, it was a s...

Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings. - P7

Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself. - P9

Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment. - P9

Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. - P12

The old house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move. Flick. A tiny, almost invisible movement, and the house was still. - P21

"Jem says I was. He read in a book where I was a Bullfinch instead of a Finch. Jem says my name’s really Jean Louise Bullfinch, that I got swapped when I was born and I’m really a—" - P25

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. - P26

[오늘의 한문장] 진보를 위한 주식투자

주식시장이 포지티브섬이라는 것은 진보적인 가치에 부합합니다. 함께 잘살 수 있다는 것, 누군가의 눈물이 아니라 함께 웃으면서 성장하고 발전할 수 있다는 점, 주식투자가 진보적 가치에 가까울 수 있다는 생각입니다. - <진보를 위한 주식투자>, 이광수 - 밀리의 서재
https://www.millie.co.kr/v3/bookDetail/ae63748b2cdd4c58 - P32

In other words: If you can’t ...

In other words: If you can’t do what you long to do, go do something else. - P253

Only when we are at our most playful can divinity finally get serious with us. Make space for all these paradoxes to be equally true inside your soul, and I promise—you can make anything. - P273

The more lightly you can pass...

The more lightly you can pass that time, the brighter your existence becomes. - P232

(Truman Capote stated it even more bluntly: "Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the backyard and shot it.") - P232

Your creative work is not your baby; if anything, you are its baby. Everything I have ever written has brought me into being. - P233

So how do you find the inspiration to work when your passion has flagged? This is where curiosity comes in. - P236

The stakes of curiosity are also far lower than the stakes of passion. - P237

There were no goose bumps, no hairs standing up on the back of my neck, no butterflies in my stomach. There was no miracle. It was like Saint Paul rode his horse all the way to Damascus and nothing happened, except maybe it rained a bit. Most days, this is what life is like. - P240

It’s Big Magic on a quieter scale, and on a slower scale, but make no mistake about it—it’s still Big Magic. - P245

Curiosity is what keeps you working steadily, while hotter emotions may come and go. - P245

Sometimes I think that the difference between a tormented creative life and a tranquil creative life is nothing more than the difference between the word awful and the word interesting. - P246

Don’t let go of your courage the moment things stop being easy or rewarding. Because that moment? That’s the moment when interesting begins. - P247