Quotes by Willie Morris - Page 1

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
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Home
Heart
Writing
Apart
Remain
Subtly
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I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
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Modern
Thinking
Writing
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His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
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Absorb
Claim
Deep
Ghosts
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
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Important
Lasts
Years
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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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Believe
Land
People
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The Halifax area has long played a major role in Canada's military operations, being the port of departure for convoys, naval task forces and army units over the past 100 years or so.
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Army
Military
Past
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The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said-yet this wasn't totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
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Friendship
Family
Brother
Dog
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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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Knowing
Memories
People
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I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight and pointing, his eyes flashing in some momentary excitement. Looking at a faded photograph taken more than forty years before, even as a grown man, I would admit I still missed him.
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Dog
Eye
Taken
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My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.
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Emotional
Growing Up
Mother
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When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop himself against the steering wheel, his black head peering out of the windshield, while I crouched out of sight under the dashboard. Slowing the car to ten or fifteen, I would guide the steering wheel with my right hand while Skip, with his paws, kept it steady. As we drove by the Blue Front Café, I could hear one of the men shout: "Look at that ol' dog drivin' a car!"
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Funny
Men
Dog
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