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> [His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/his-claim-to-his-home-is-deep-but-there-are-too-many-ghosts-he-must/)

[Willie Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-morris/)

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## More by Willie Morris

> [When I started driving our old four-door green DeSoto, I always took Skip on my trips around town. I would get Skip to prop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/when-i-started-driving-our-old-four-door-green-desoto-i-always-took/)

[Willie Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-morris/)

> [When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/when-a-writer-knows-home-in-his-heart-his-heart-must-remain-subtly/)

[Willie Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-morris/)

> [My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/my-mother-s-people-the-people-who-captured-my-imagination-when-i-was/)

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> [I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/i-came-across-a-photograph-of-him-not-long-ago-his-black-face-the/)

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> [“And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/and-it-was-to-this-city-whenever-i-went-home-that-i-always-knew-i/)

[Willie Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-morris/)

> [His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/his-claim-to-his-home-is-deep-but-there-are-too-many-ghosts-he-must/)

[Willie Morris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willie-morris/)

> [“They had buried him under our elm tree, they said -- yet this was not totally true. For he really lay buried in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/they-had-buried-him-under-our-elm-tree-they-said-yet-this-was-not/)

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> [I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/i-can-think-of-no-one-more-qualified-to-write-about-the-modern-south/)

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> [The dog of your boyhood teaches you a great deal about friendship, and love, and death: Old Skip was my brother. They had buried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/the-dog-of-your-boyhood-teaches-you-a-great-deal-about-friendship-and/)

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> [As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/as-with-many-southern-writers-i-believe-that-the-special-quality-of/)

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> [I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willie-morris/i-have-always-had-a-love-for-american-geography-and-especially-for/)

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