Quotations from the Writers
"A Southerner talks music. At least it is music to me, but then
I was born in the South." –Mark Twain "The true Southern watermelon
is a boon apart. . . . When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat.
It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented."
–Mark Twain "Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience; this is
the ideal life." –Mark Twain |
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"Come up into the hills. O my young love! Return! O lost, and by
the wind grieved ghost, come back again, as first I knew you in the timeless
valley, where we shall feel ourselves anew, bedded on magic in the month
of June." –Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
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"Momma exhorted her children at every opportunity to jump at the sun. We
might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
–Zora Neale Hurston
"The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will
be completely ruthless if he is a good one. . . If a writer has to rob his mother,
he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies."
–William Faulkner
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"I am the grandchild of a lost War, and I have blood-knowledge
of what life can be in a defeated country on the bare bones of privation.
–Katherine Anne Porter
"The summer country of my childhood forms only the living background
of what I am trying to tell."
–Katherine Anne Porter
"My life has been incredible–I don’t believe a word of it."
–Katherine Anne Porter
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