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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.

Harper Lee

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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Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
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
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
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’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
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning

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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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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