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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.

Harper Lee

Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they’re quite different from people who must write.
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Deep Different Discipline Learning People Process Quite Writer Writing
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.
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Advice Aspiration Career Development Hide Myself Wisdom Writing
I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system – that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
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Believe Court Health Ideal Integrity Live Work
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
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Better Earth Equality Growth Harm Important Myself Poor Rich Thinking Truth Yourself
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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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
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
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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You can’t really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand.
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You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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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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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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