"As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it."

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Source : Willie Morris (2011). “The Courting of Marcus Dupree”, p.20, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Willie Morris

#Believe Quotes #Land Quotes #People Quotes

“It's amazing the relationships you forge in a kitchen. When you cooperate in an environment that's hot. Where there's a lot of knives. You're trusting your well-being with someone you've never before met or known.”
“One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.”
“As members of a minority, one that was often persecuted, that entrepreneurial perspective was burnished with a sense of "outsider" status - so not only were we committed to finding our own way of achieving success, we also grew up to believe that we'd have to fight to get whatever we wanted.”
“The more that you follow me, the more I get lost”
“If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.”
“I hope the Canada Pops can play in E and A. I do 'Forty Days' and 'Bo Diddley'. I don't change songs, just bands.”
“Copy and paste is a design error.”
“Maybe it's a little ambitious of me to presume that no matter how big the film is, that I can always go down to the shop to buy a pint of milk.”

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