Harper Lee quote about facts from To Kill a Mockingbird - Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
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Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
 Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960). copy citation

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“He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts.
There are no clearly defined seasons in South Alabama; summer drifts into autumn, and autumn is sometimes never followed by winter, but turns to a days-old spring that melts into summer again. That fall was a long one, hardly cool enough for a light jacket.” source

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