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Random Ramblings of a Southern Gal

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People say that we tend to read the books that impress or move us most before the age of 25. Not because we read less in later life but because we get too sophisticated to be so easily awestruck. Once you’ve read Great Expectations, anything you subsequently read would have to be even better than Great Expectations to impress you to the same extent as Great Expectations did – it would have to compensate for your greater expectations as a result of having read Great Expectations. That’s asking a lot of Nick Hornby.
David Mitchell, in the Guardian (via misskayvee)

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markdchou:

General Manners No. 1 | Old Try
“The other day, a big paper in New York City decried the disappearance of manners. And not just folks’ manners north of the line, but Southerners. Well, Momma didn’t raise no heathens, and we thought this would be the right time to remind us all of what she and Daddy taught us. Manners might be going out of fashion up here, but they aren’t going to disappear from the South. Not on our watch, they’re not. No ma’am.”

markdchou:

General Manners No. 1 | Old Try

“The other day, a big paper in New York City decried the disappearance of manners. And not just folks’ manners north of the line, but Southerners. Well, Momma didn’t raise no heathens, and we thought this would be the right time to remind us all of what she and Daddy taught us. Manners might be going out of fashion up here, but they aren’t going to disappear from the South. Not on our watch, they’re not. No ma’am.”

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So, I raise a morphine toast to you all. And if you should happen to remember, it’s the anniversary of my birth. Remember you were loved by me. And that you made my life a happy one. And there’s no tragedy in that.
Third Star (2010)

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