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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.

Harper Lee

Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.
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Bird Destroy Enjoyment Garden Heart Music Sin Sing
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
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
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
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
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
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
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
As a reader I loathe introductions…Introductions inhibit pleasure, they kill the joy of anticipation, they frustrate curiosity.
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Curiosity Frustration Happiness Introduction Joy Kill Reading
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner

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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