Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just — when all along we knew it wasn't.


The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (1951)


Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was ...

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was ...

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was ...

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was ...