I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.
PAT CONROYWilliam Ferris has long reigned as the unimpeachable source of the entire southern experience. His work on southern folklore and the composition of the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture have made him both legendary and necessary. His book,
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Humanity is best described as inhumanity.
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I’ve never had anyone’s approval, so I’ve learned to live without it.
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My wound is geography. It is also my anchorage, my port of call.
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I do not have any other way of saying it. I think it happens but once and only to the very young when it feels like your skin could ignite at the mere touch of another person. You get to love like that but once.
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I lived with the terrible knowledge that one day I would be an old man still waiting for my real life to start. Already, I pitied that old man.
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There’s no word in the language I revere more than ‘teacher.’ My heart sings when a kid refers to me as his teacher, and it always has. I’ve honored myself and the entire family of man by becoming a teacher.
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
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Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.
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The most powerful words in English are, ‘Tell me a story.’
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The most powerful words in English are ‘Tell me a story,’ words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.
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Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.
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Love’s action. It isn’t talk and it never has been.
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I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.
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I stood face to face with the moon and the ocean and the future that spread out with all its bewildering immensity before me.
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