John Berendt Quotes

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• Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.
• By morning she was dead. She had not died of starvation or committed suicide by any conventional means. She had simply willed herself to die,…
• Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.
• Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief…
• If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?"…
• Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.
• Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music,…
• For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at…
• Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
• The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.

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