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People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.

Harper Lee

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’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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
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
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
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win 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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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Book Equality Reading Religious Thinking
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
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
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
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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Bad Hurt Insult Name Person Poor Thinking Yourself
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
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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Beautiful Language Love Struggle Substitute

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