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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.

Harper Lee

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
It’s better to be silent than to be a fool.
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Better Fools Silence
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
The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.
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Conscience Listening People Person Rule
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
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
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
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Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.
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Better Case Exception Law Special
I do my best to love everybody.
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Best Compassionate Kindness Love Myself One Liner
Things are always better in the morning.
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Better Morning 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 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
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
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
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
Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screeneed porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape.
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Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer

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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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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