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I do my best to love everybody.

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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
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
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness sake. But don’t make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion faster than adults, and evasion simply muddles ’em.
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Answer Children Goodness Simplicity Yourself
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
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Circumstance Insult Night Proud Stranger Yourself
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Action Character Determination Dimension Novel Story
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
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
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Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special

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