Top 17 John Berendt Quotes
#2. Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.
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#3. Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.
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#4. The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
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#5. If there's a single trait common to all Savannahians, it's their love of money and their unwillingness to spend it.
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#6. If there were not a bridge from Venice to Europe, Europe would be an island
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#7. This town is like Gone with the Wind on mescaline!" From Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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#8. She was a marvel. She did exactly as she pleased all her life, God bless her.
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#9. Never spend any of your hard-earned money on clothes and accessories. You need to get yourself a mayyin to buy all that for you.
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#10. By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die, and being a strong-willed woman, she had succeeded. She had missed dying on her birthday by two days.
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#11. Black magic never stops. What goes from you comes to you. Once you start this shit, you gotta keep it up. Just like the utility bill. Just like the grocery store. Or they kill you. You got to keep it up. Two, five, ten, twenty years.
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#12. But I never think about dead people. Looking at these old graves makes me think how generation after generation of the same family are all gathered together. And that makes me think about how life goes on, but not about dying. I never think about dying.
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#13. Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.
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#14. 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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#15. If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?
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#16. The South is one big drag show, honey [...].
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#17. Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.
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