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> [About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/about-fifteen-miles-above-new-orleans-the-river-goes-very-slowly-it/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

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## More by Frank Yerby

> [Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/maturity-is-reached-the-day-we-don-t-need-to-be-lied-to-about-anything/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/when-it-was-over-it-was-not-really-over-and-that-was-the-trouble/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/about-fifteen-miles-above-new-orleans-the-river-goes-very-slowly-it/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/it-is-my-contention-that-a-really-great-novel-is-made-with-a-knife/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/the-middle-years-the-eighteen-seventies-eighties-nineties-were-a-time/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [Writing a novel is like building a wall brick by brick; only amateurs believe in inspiration.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/writing-a-novel-is-like-building-a-wall-brick-by-brick-only-amateurs/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [“Ill tell you the one that I think will: when a mans in love he wants to keep the one he loves- and cherish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/ill-tell-you-the-one-that-i-think-will-when-a-mans-in-love-he-wants/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [Each man's death is fated from the beginning of time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/each-man-s-death-is-fated-from-the-beginning-of-time/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [From where they stood, they could see the castle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/from-where-they-stood-they-could-see-the-castle/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

> [There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-yerby/there-was-no-wind-in-all-that-sweep-of-sky/)

[Frank Yerby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-yerby/)

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