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

Harper Lee

People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
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.
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Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust
She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it.
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Break Desire Herself Mistake Persistence Strong Talk
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
Writing is something you’ll never learn in any university or at any school. It’s something that is within you, and if it isn’t there, nothing can put it there.
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Education Learning Writing Yourself
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer
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.
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Family Myself Possible Protection Son Ugly World
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
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Attention Attraction Bad Children Language Time
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
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Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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Place Understand Walk Yourself

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

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