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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...
Don’t you feel cut off? I asked. Cut off from what? she replied. No, on the whole I’d say we rather enjoy our separateness.
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She was a marvel. She did exactly as she pleased all her life, God bless her.
What was your name before that? I asked. Frank, she said.
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its...
Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it...
The South is one big drag show, honey [...].
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...
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. But in Savannah the...
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...
According to the National Institute of Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, more than 8 percent of Savannah’s adults were known alcoholics,
Whitney had carefully kept the cotton gin under wraps while he applied for a patent, but he made a tactical error when he allowed women to have a look at it,
Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I hav...
More drink. That’s when things happen. That’s when you find out everything you want to know.
Jim Williams’s guilt or innocence is no longer the issue, he said. Spencer Lawton’s incompetence is the issue.
How do you do that? I asked. What do witches eat? Witches loves pork meat, she said. They loves rice and potatoes. They loves black-eyed peas and cornbread. Lima beans, too, and collard greens and cab...
We’re not at all like the rest of Georgia. 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 Augu...