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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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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
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
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Person Point Understand View 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
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
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
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
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
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
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
Things are never as bad as they seem.
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Appearance Bad One Liner
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
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Acknowledgement Choice Family Friendship Right Yourself
I’m still old-fashioned. I love dusty old books and libraries.
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Book Fashion Library Love Myself Old
People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.
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Mindset People Pride Right Talent
There’s a lot of ugly things in this world, son. I wish I could keep ’em all away from you. That’s never possible.
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Family Myself Possible Protection Son Ugly World

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

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