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"The gum looked fresh. I sniffed it and it smelled all right. I licked it and waited for a while. When I did not die, I crammed it into my mouth: Wrigley's Double Mint."
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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

"I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements."

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

"Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience."

"Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?"

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."

"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."

"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."
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"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."

"In Maycomb, if one went for a walk with no definite purpose in mind, it was correct to believe one's mind incapable of definite purpose."

"Before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience."

"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."

"Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results."
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