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[Quoting Miss Harty:]People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they’re telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah coul...

John Berendt

[Quoting Miss Harty:]People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they’re telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah coul...

Tags: change, fashions, georgia, individuality, prosperity, savannah, separateness, society

The doorbell rang again, and there was Mrs. Onassis and her friend Maurice

John Berendt

The doorbell rang again, and there was Mrs. Onassis and her friend Maurice

About Author
John Berendt (born December 5, 1939) is an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction.

Savannah was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms. It wanted nothing so much as to be left alone. Time

John Berendt

Savannah was invariably gracious to strangers, but it was immune to their charms. It wanted nothing so much as to be left alone. Time

Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.

John Berendt

Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.

It's like the control insects at the Laboratory. Di d I ever tell you about them? Well, we keep a lot of insect colonies in big glass jars out there. Some of them have been breeding for twenty-five ye...

John Berendt

It's like the control insects at the Laboratory. Di d I ever tell you about them? Well, we keep a lot of insect colonies in big glass jars out there. Some of them have been breeding for twenty-five ye...

Saying, I originally left the door unlocked as a matter of convenience. But pretty soon I realized that whenever the doorbell did ring, it was someone I didn’t know. So the bell became a signal that a...

John Berendt

Saying, I originally left the door unlocked as a matter of convenience. But pretty soon I realized that whenever the doorbell did ring, it was someone I didn’t know. So the bell became a signal that a...

But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goe...

John Berendt

But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goe...

The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow.

John Berendt

The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow.

Tags: tides

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.

John Berendt

Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.

Because it’s my job. It’s how I make my living. And I’ll tell you somethin’ else: It’s damn hard work bein’ a girl full

John Berendt

Because it’s my job. It’s how I make my living. And I’ll tell you somethin’ else: It’s damn hard work bein’ a girl full

If you did not like the show, honey, my name is Nancy Reagan and go fuck yourself. Chablis

John Berendt

If you did not like the show, honey, my name is Nancy Reagan and go fuck yourself. Chablis

Lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah! He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto.

John Berendt

Lay loooo-yah! A-layyyy-loo yah! He had abandoned his tenor and was singing in a wavering falsetto.

Dr. Irving Stone of the Institute for Forensic Sciences in Dallas. He’s the guy who analyzed the clothing worn by President Kennedy and Governor Connally for the congressional committee that reexamine...

John Berendt

Dr. Irving Stone of the Institute for Forensic Sciences in Dallas. He’s the guy who analyzed the clothing worn by President Kennedy and Governor Connally for the congressional committee that reexamine...

Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.

John Berendt

Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.

He was a nice fellow, Williams says. He could be charming. He had his girlfriend, I had mine. But to me, sex is just a natural thing. We’d had sex a few times. Didn’t bother me. Didn’t bother him. I h...

John Berendt

He was a nice fellow, Williams says. He could be charming. He had his girlfriend, I had mine. But to me, sex is just a natural thing. We’d had sex a few times. Didn’t bother me. Didn’t bother him. I h...

Tags: sexuality

The South is one big drag show, honey [...].

John Berendt

The South is one big drag show, honey [...].

There being no direct route to Savannah from Charleston, I followed a zigzagging course that took me through the tidal flatlands of the South Carolina low country. As I approached Savannah, the road n...

John Berendt

There being no direct route to Savannah from Charleston, I followed a zigzagging course that took me through the tidal flatlands of the South Carolina low country. As I approached Savannah, the road n...

That you are a worldly adult,’ she said. ‘You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let th...

John Berendt

That you are a worldly adult,’ she said. ‘You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let th...

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She ha...

John Berendt

By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She ha...

We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, ‘What’s your business?’ In Macon they ask, ‘Where do you go to church?’ In Augusta they ask your grandmother’s maiden name...

John Berendt

We have a saying: If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, ‘What’s your business?’ In Macon they ask, ‘Where do you go to church?’ In Augusta they ask your grandmother’s maiden name...