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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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
Real 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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Beginning Courage Reality See Yourself
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
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are some men in this world who are born to do our unpleasant jobs for us. Your father’s one of them.
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Born Father Insult Job Man World Yourself
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women – black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.
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Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
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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Best Conduct Ourselves Time
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
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Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
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
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
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
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
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Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
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Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman

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