“ In the South they are convinced that they have bloodied their place with history. In the West we do not believe that anything we do can bloody the land, or change it, or touch it. Joan Didion
“ Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded… Tom Robbins
“ Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their unfaithful spouses; who have livelier gestures, more lustrous eyes, more… Susan Sontag
“ It is always the savage lads, with their love of excitement, who head the riot - reckless to what bloodshed it may lead. Elizabeth Gaskell
“ In history, the bleeding from arbitrary beatings, forced breedings, and choked-heatbreathing could almost be withstood by soul-feeding songs sung, or listlessly hummed just to go on. Kristen Henderson
“ Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing. William Faulkner
“ Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, o… Frances Mayes
“ It is critical that both North and South work collectively for facing the online challenges in defeating the criminals but we also need to ensure that the internet remains a platform for freedom of ex… Arzak Khan
“ In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ... Alison Weir