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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.

Harper Lee

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
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
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
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
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
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
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth 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
Everybody’s gotta learn, nobody’s born knowing.
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Born Education Learning
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
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
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
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
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
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

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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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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