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You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

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Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.

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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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The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

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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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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.

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Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of walking right in for coffee. But they wouldn't dream of interrupting you at golf.

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This was life in the '30s. This is the way it was with children in the South. I tried to make it general, the kind of things that might happen to any child.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 28th, 1926

Died: February 19th, 2016

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