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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

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
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
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
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Enemy Man Wisdom
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
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
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning 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
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
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
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
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
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Himself Worth Writing
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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View Yourself
People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.
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Listening People Personal Perspective See
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
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
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Himself Life Love Relationship Routine

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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