black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

Harper Lee

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.
HARPER LEE

Focus Himself Man Mindset Service
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEE

Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
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.
HARPER LEE

Brave Father Hate Live Man Myself Thinking Time War Weapon
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.
HARPER LEE

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.
HARPER LEE

Black Human Immoral Lying Man Race Trust White Woman
My objectives are very limited. I want to do the best I can with the talent God gave me. I hope to goodness that every novel I do gets better and better, not worse and worse.
HARPER LEE

Best God Goodness Hope Limitation Myself Objective Talent Worst
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.
HARPER LEE

Education Learning Writing Yourself
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

Kind Myself People Thinking
There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.
HARPER LEE

Beautiful Language Love Struggle Substitute
You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.
HARPER LEE

Person Point Understand View Yourself
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.
HARPER LEE

Courage Hands Ideas Reality Weapon
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
HARPER LEE

Himself Worth Writing
But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.
HARPER LEE

Best Conduct Ourselves Time
With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.
HARPER LEE

Himself Life Love Relationship Routine
You rarely win, but sometimes you do.
HARPER LEE

Hope Inspirational Motivational One Liner Rare Win Yourself
Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they’re not attracting attention with it.
HARPER LEE

Attention Attraction Bad Children Language Time

But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

But before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Harper Lee Quotes