133 Quotes About South

  • Author Jack Kerouac
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    we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. 'We're in the South! We've left the winter!' Faint daybreak illuminated green shoots by the side of the road. I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across the darkness, mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted

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  • Author Michael Lee West
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    There was another thing I had forgotten about the South: It was the one place on earth where an unsuspecting person could get killed by kindness.

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  • Author Pat Conroy
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    - La manière sudiste? dit-elle.- L'immortelle expression chère à ma mère. Nous rions quand la douleur se fait trop forte. Nous rions quand la pitié de l'humaine condition devient trop pitoyable. Nous rions quand il n'y a rien d'autre à faire.

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  • Author Jimmy Barros
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    It's tough to come back in on that ledge when the ocean's flat. With today's 3-foot south swell and the easterly wind swell, it was even more dangerous.

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  • Author Fred Coan
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    We've got kids, I'm sure, who have never been out of South Carolina.

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