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"A memory is a beautiful thing, it's almost a desire that you miss."

"Perhaps it is better not to tell what you wish. if you cannot have it."

"Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself."

"For the duration of his erection: To a horny man, all women are the most beautiful woman in the world."

"We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes."

"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants. To get, simply release, and then gently invite."

"As much longing for worldly happiness (of 5 senses) there is, that much less is the spiritual development."
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"They are simple people, most of them, but that doesn't make them subhuman.You are telling them Jesus loves them, but not much."

"I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement."

"I wanted you to see something about her-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. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do. Mrs. Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the bravest person I ever knew."

"One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them."

"They had never been able to sustain fifteen minutes' conversation with one another without advancing irreconcilable points of view, invigorating in friendships, but in close blood relations producing only uneasy cordiality."

"The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a court-room, be he any colour of the rainbow, but people have way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box."
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