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 LEEReal courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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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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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
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There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
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With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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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.
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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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It’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn’t hurt you.
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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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