"Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know."

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Source : John Berendt (2010). “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil”, p.62, Vintage

John Berendt

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“Each day was a challenge of enjoyment, and he [Hemingway] would plan it out as a field general plans a campign.”
“Dear Skeezie, Today I ran after a boy as he was trying to get away. I tackled him and we both landed in the mud. Do you think I appeared desperate?-Joe Bunch”
“The best artists know what to leave out.”
“Almost everywhere else in Europe, the more military the state, the stronger the king - except in Britain. Here it was parliament, not the monarchy, who signed the cheques. The longer the war went on, the stronger parliament became, as the purse on which it sat grew bigger and bigger.”
“If a woman abandoned by her husband, or a widow, of her own accord contracts a second marriage and bears ,a son , he is called the son of a re married woman .”
“It is actually a lot harder to sit down and write from A to Z. But for me at least, it's the only way I can do it, at this point, with any moderate success.”
“Believing in fate has probably always arisen in part because of the delights and terrors of storytelling. We have to realize--to learn--that in life we are not the readers but the authors of our own narratives.”
“My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening nowâ€”our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.”

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