"I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life."

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

Willie Morris

#Memories Quotes #Knowing Quotes #People Quotes

“The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.”
“When I analyse a position, I have a sparring partner who understands chess amazingly well. In a way I feel sorry for him, because of his work with me he cannot play as much chess as he wants. He more or less gave up his playing career.”
“We'd never get anything fixed to suit us if we waited for things to suit us before we started.”
“I guess the internet and the power of people finding things out for themselves is great.”

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“Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.”
“By neglecting our garden, we are storing up for ourselves, in the not very distant future, a world catastrophe as bad as any atomic war, and we are doing it with all the bland complacency of an idiot child chopping up a Rembrandt with a pair of scissors.”

Source : "Two in the Bush". Book by Gerald Durrell, 1966.
“The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.”
“They spoke truth and a lot of people listened.... that voice, Kurt we miss you.”

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