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Book: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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  1. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    He was a nice fellow," Williams says. "He could be charming. He had his girlfriend, I had mine. But to me, sex is just a natural thing. We'd had sex a few times. Didn't bother me. Didn't bother him. I had my girlfriend, and he had his. It was just an occasional, natural thing that happened." The expressions on the jurors' faces suggest they do not find this arrangement natural at all.
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  2. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    It's like the control insects at the Laboratory. Di d I ever tell you about them? Well, we keep a lot of insect colonies in big glass jars out there. Some of them have been breeding for twenty-five years. That's a thousand generations. All they know about life is what goes on inside their Jar. They haven't been exposed to pesticides or pollution, so they haven't developed immunities or evolved in any way. They stay the same, generation after generation. If we released them into the outside world, they'd die. I think something like that happens after seven generations in Savannah. Savannah gets to be the only place you can live. We're like bugs in a jar.
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  3. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    The tides surged through the marsh and each wave that hit the beach came light-struck and broad-shouldered, with all the raw power the moon could bestow.
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  4. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    There being no direct route to Savannah from Charleston, I followed a zigzagging course that took me through the tidal flatlands of the South Carolina low country. As I approached Savannah, the road narrowed to a two-lane blacktop shaded by tall trees. There was an occasional produce stand by the side of the road and a few cottages set into the foliage, but nothing resembling urban sprawl. The voice on the radio informed me that I had entered a zone called the Coastal Empire.
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  5. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    {Quoting Miss Harty:}"People come here from all over the country and fall in love with Savannah. Then they move here and pretty soon they're telling us how much more lively and prosperous Savannah could be if we only knew what we had and how to take advantage of it. I call these people 'Gucci carpetbaggers.
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  6. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    Sometimes I just can't face going through with breakfast.
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  7. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    The South is one big drag show, honey {...}.
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  8. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    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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  9. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    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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  10. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    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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  11. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.
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  12. John Berendt _ Midnight in the Garden of Good

    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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