Note to Taoist

[buddy]

Taoist,

These are a few more excerpts from my book titled, "The Seven Signs Of Southerness."

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"Try to remember that, though ignorance becomes a Southern gentleman, cowardice does not." (Lillian Hellman - "Another Part Of The Forest")

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"Truth be told my father had cured me of fishing and hunting by the time I had reached my teens...The man was serious, I'm telling you serious about his hunting and fishing. And I just broke under the strain." (Michael Swindle -"Mulletheads")

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"The South still has a better chance of working out its problems than the more urbanized rest of the country, simply because more of us remember each other's names." (Will Campbell)

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"In (The South), the legend says that you must close your windows at night to keep it out of the house." (James Dickey, from his poem, "Kudzu")

 

[taoist]

...those are pretty good, buddy. I am currently away from my personal home library, but when I get back home, I'll try to add to some of these.... hope all is well up in the burg....

 

[taoist]

...well, buddy, i finally made it back home and dug out a little book of my own entitled "The South Speaks." It classifies "Southerners" as those of us lucky enough to be born east of the Mississippi River and South of the Mason-Dixon line...here are a few tidbits.


The North excels in business, but the South leads in romance.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
Kentucky

I don't know anything about music. In my line of work, you don't have to.
~ Elvis Presley
Mississippi

What you need for breakfast, they say in east Tennessee, is a jug of good corn liquor, a thick beefsteak, and a hound dog. Then you feed the beefsteak to the hound dog.
~ Charles Kuralt
North Carolina

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
~ Flannery O'Conner
Georgia

When you are poor, dirt poor, and there is no way of concealing it, life is hell. In the counrty, where there is work and food and friends of the same age and background, you may never know you're poor.
~ Ava Gardner
North Carolina

Because a boxer gets hurt, should they stop boxing? That would be crazy. More people die in bath tubs.
~ Muhammad Ali
Kentucky

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Virginia

If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it'll be the last car he'll ever lay down in front of.
~ George C. Wallace
Alabama

I was the first woman to burn my bra.... It took the fire department four days to put it out!
~ Dolly Parton
Tennessee

I didn't know how babies were made until I was pregnant with my fourth child five years later.
~ Loretta Lynn
Kentucky

In the spring we had big, red June apples; in the fall we made molasses. Those times made getting out of bed worthwhile.
~ Chet Atkins
Tennessee

The idea of life is to give and receive.
~ Dizzy Gillespie
South Carolina

Our society is neither scientific nor splendid, but independant, hospitable, correct and neighborly.
~ Thomas Jefferson
North Carolina

He can run, but he can't hide.
~ Joe Louis
Alabama

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
~ William Faulkner
Mississippi

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade, just as painting or music does. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
~ Truman Capote
Louisiana

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
~ Alice Walker
Georgia

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
~ Andrew Jackson
Tennessee

We were taught to be South Carolinians, Ca-ro-li-ni-ans, mind you, and not, please God, the Tarheel slur, Calinians.
~ William Francis Guess
South Carolina

We are a close-knit family, living in the most original and beautiful of all sections of America.
~ Jesse Stuart
Kentucky

The best way to judge a life is to ask yourself, "Did I make the best use of the time I had?"
~ Arthur Ashe
Virginia

I leave this rule for others when I'm dead.
Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
~ Davie Crockett
Tennessee


:grins:

 

[buddy]

Taoist,

I ain't much of a reader, but I'm a big fan of this guy...

You ever read any books by Pat Conroy?

Southern writer who can REALLY tell a story.

"The Prince Of Tides"
"The Great Santini"
"Beach Music"
"The Lords Of Discipline"
"The Water Is Wide"

 

[TORONTO-VIGILANTE]

if i may jump in this thread and list some of my favorite best

sellers by dr.seuss:

1. The Cat in the Blender
2. Herbert the Pervert Likes Sherbert
3. Fox in Detox
4. Who Shat in the Hat?
5. Horton Hires a Ho
6. The Flesh-Eating Lorax
7. How the Grinch Stole Columbus Day
8. Your Colon Can Moo---Can You?
9. Zippy the Rabid Gerbil
10. One Bitch, Two Bitch, Dead Bitch, Blue Bitch
11. Marvin K. Mooney, Get the **** Out!
12. Are You My Proctologist?
13. Yentl the Lentil
14. My Pocket Rocket Needs A Socket
15. Aunts in My Pants
16. Oh, the Places You'll Scratch and Sniff!
17. Horton Fakes an Orgasm
18. The Grinch's Ten Inches

 

[taoist]

buddy,

...yeah, i've only read the prince of tides, but i do quite enjoy his writing style.... I will have to look for a few of the other books on your list. although with all of the reading that i have to do in law school, i may not get around to reading them until summer of 2004. LOL

...here are a couple of books written by southern writers that i thought were very well written and thought you might enjoy. see if you can find "Wise Blood" by Flannery O'Conner or "A Time Before Dying" by Ernest J. Gaines. Enjoy, my friend.


T-Vig,

...that's just too damn funny. LMAO!