Top 6 Willie Morris Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie
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#3. When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
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#4. His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
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#5. 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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#6. They had buried him under our elm tree, they said
yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my heart.
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