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Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.

Harper Lee

You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right 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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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
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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
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
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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Courage Hands Ideas Reality Weapon
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
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
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
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
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box.
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Carry Color Deal Man People Place Right Room Way

Serving on a jury forces a man to make up his mind and declare himself about something. Men don’t like to do that. Sometimes it’s unpleasant.

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