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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.

Harper Lee

Ladies pick funny things to be proud of.
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Funny Pride Proud Woman
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
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
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
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
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
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
But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.
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Deep Live Myself People Spiritual
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
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
She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.
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Appearance Beginning Girl Happiness Skills
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
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
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
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
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old

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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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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