Florence King - Southern ladies and gentlemen (1975)

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To a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world.

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Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy.... If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away, or shot, they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

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Because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes out of a Southern mouth is bound to be a ringing line.

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Oppressed people are treacherous for the simple reason that treachery is both a means of survival and a way to curry favor with one's oppressor.

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Nothing is more likely to start me screaming like a madwoman than New York in February with its piles of blackened snow full of yellow holes drilled by dogs.

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