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I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Harper Lee

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
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
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
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Action Character Determination Dimension Novel Story
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
Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.
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Beginning Cleaning End Faith Prejudice Reason
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
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Kind Myself People Thinking
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
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
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
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
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Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
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
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
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

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