black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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

Break Desire Herself Mistake Persistence Strong Talk
I do much of my creative thinking while golfing. If people know you’re working at home they think nothing of walking in for a cup of coffee, but wouldn’t dream of interrupting on the golf course.
HARPER LEE

Coffee Creative People Sports Thinking Work Yourself
Ladies in bunches always filled me with vague apprehension and a firm desire to be elsewhere.
HARPER LEE

Desire Feeling Group Myself Woman
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
HARPER LEE

Breathe Fear Lose Love Myself Oneself Reading
As you grow up, always tell the truth, do no harm to others, and don’t think you are the most important being on earth. Rich or poor, you then can look anyone in the eye and say, ‘I’m probably no better than you, but I’m certainly your equal.
HARPER LEE

Better Earth Equality Growth Harm Important Myself Poor Rich Thinking Truth Yourself
Rest assured, as long as I am alive any book purporting to be with my cooperation is a falsehood.
HARPER LEE

Alive Book Cooperation Fake Myself Rest
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.
HARPER LEE

Best Color Eat Goodness Season Sleep Summer
I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.
HARPER LEE

Kind Myself People Thinking
Are you proud of yourself tonight that you have insulted a total stranger whose circumstances you know nothing about?
HARPER LEE

Circumstance Insult Night Proud Stranger Yourself
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.
HARPER LEE

Book Equality Reading Religious Thinking
We’re paying the highest tribute you can pay a man. We trust him to do right. It’s that simple.
HARPER LEE

Man Myself Pay Right Simplicity Trust
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
Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.
HARPER LEE

Hands Man Oneself Religious Worst
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
Characters make their own plot. The dimensions of the characters determine the action of the novel.
HARPER LEE

Action Character Determination Dimension Novel Story
A man can condemn his enemies, but it’s wiser to know them.
HARPER LEE

Enemy Man Wisdom

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Harper Lee Quotes