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  1. James McBride _ The Color of Water: A Black

    It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets.
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  2. Harper Lee _ To Kill a Mockingbird

    Maycomb was a tired old town, even in 1932 when I first knew it. Somehow, it was hotter then. Men's stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon after their three o'clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but it seemed longer. There's no hurry, for there's nowhere to go and nothing to buy...and no money to buy it with.
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  3. Pat Conroy _ Beach Music

    Carolina beach music," Dupree said, coming up on the porch. "The holiest sound on earth.
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  4. Colson Whitehead _ The Underground Railroad

    He had met this sort of white man before, earnest and believing what came out of their mouths. The veracity of their words was another matter, but at least they believed them. The southern white man was spat from the loins of the devil and there was no way to forecast his next evil act.
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  5. Joan Didion _ South and West: From a

    In the South they are convinced that they have bloodied their place with history. In the West we do not believe that anything we do can bloody the land, or change it, or touch it."
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  6. Tom Robbins _ Jitterbug Perfume

    Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing.
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  7. Edward P. Jones _ All Aunt Hagar's Children:

    We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.
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  8. Charles Frazier _ Cold Mountain

    He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
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  9. Alison Weir _ The Princes in the Tower

    In the South of England northerners were regarded then as uncouth, brutish, undisciplined savages ...
    book-quotesouthopinionnorth

  10. Frances Mayes _ Under Magnolia: A Southern

    Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you do, where you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking. What is said, what is left to the imagination, what is denied, withheld, exaggerated-all these secretive, inverted things informed my childhood. Writing the stories that I found in the box, I remember being particularly fascinated by secrets kept in order to protect someone from who you are. That protection, sharpest knife in the drawer, I absorbed as naturally as a southern accent. At that time, I was curious to hold up to the light glimpses of the family that I had so efficiently fled. We were remote-back behind nowhere-when I was growing up, but even so, enormous social change was about to crumble foundations. Who were we, way far South? "We're south of everywhere," my mother used to lament.
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