“But that’s the thing about East Texas. Red dirt never quite washes out, and pine pollen is tenacious as original sin. You… — Markham Shaw Pyle Deep-south Copy Share Image
“It was left to the Progressive movement in America (as to the Fabians in Britain) to promote eugenics, Prohibition, dietary fads, the… — Markham Shaw Pyle Breeding Copy Share Image
“... in 1912, although he, more even than other members of the Senate and the House, thought himself presidential timber (a delusion… — Markham Shaw Pyle Congress Copy Share Image
“This side of the Kingdom of God upon Earth, it is a melancholy human fact that those who beat their swords into… — Markham Shaw Pyle History Copy Share Image
“For four centuries now, the American people have resigned themselves to natural disasters and acts of God: floods, prairie fires, blizzards, tornados,… — Markham Shaw Pyle America Copy Share Image
“My mother was widely loved, and rightly so – and widely regarded as too sweet for words. Well, she had them buffaloed.… — Markham Shaw Pyle Dachshunds Copy Share Image
“Chili is one of those marvelous-simple, elemental, all-important, and fundamental concepts that has been elaborated out of all recognition: rather like justice,… — Markham Shaw Pyle Aquinas Copy Share Image
“In answer to 'But violence hasn't solved anything!' The hell it hasn't. The application of violence - of killing and a willingness… — Markham Shaw Pyle Pacifism Copy Share Image
“I admit at the beginning that 'popular religion,' 'demotic religion,' the pieties of the common folk, tends to sink to the lowest… — Markham Shaw Pyle Common denominator Copy Share Image
“East Texas is red dirt – not red, in sober truth, but the orange of rust, which it basically is, ferrous oxide… — Markham Shaw Pyle Deep-south Copy Share Image
“Recent fads in history and biography have increasingly exalted the aridity of chronology and fact, and have, with some valid reason, rejected… — Markham Shaw Pyle Historians Copy Share Image
“In the past few years, genetics have confirmed that the hunter-gatherers were not overwhelmed by the new wave of sedentary farmers, and… — Markham Shaw Pyle History Copy Share Image
“The reason all the 'intellectuals' – Sartre and Marx, Hemingway and Hellman – (. . .) are Leftists is that a defining… — Markham Shaw Pyle Conservative Copy Share Image
“In keeping with the Laws of the Prophet Bubba and the Code of the UIL, as set forth in the Book of… — Markham Shaw Pyle Deep-south Copy Share Image
“Show me you care about our common tongue. Bring to your [writing] passion, deeply informed by knowledge of your subject. Stay me,… — Markham Shaw Pyle Authors Copy Share Image
“Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser… — Markham Shaw Pyle Culture Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, I am opposed to tax dollars being used for – well, damn near anything, barring mail delivery, law… — Markham Shaw Pyle Law enforcement Copy Share Image
“Justice can readily do her job blindfolded; she cannot function gagged and deafened, least of all when the means of gagging and… — Markham Shaw Pyle Blindfolded Copy Share Image
“Public life in this country is too damn dominated by people who’d read more if only their lips didn’t get so tired.” — Markham Shaw Pyle American politics Copy Share Image
“Of all America’s natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.” — Markham Shaw Pyle America Copy Share Image
“If the power to tax is the power to destroy, the power to regulate is no less so.” — Markham Shaw Pyle Regulate Copy Share Image
“Over the course of human history, many items have briefly flourished as means of exchange, only to be demonetarized. Now, we have… — Markham Shaw Pyle Barter Copy Share Image
“No matter where you go in East Texas, ‘Deep’ East Texas is always about twenty miles further in than wherever you are.” — Markham Shaw Pyle Deep-south Copy Share Image
“As it happens, however, no one in my family recognizes the existence of an impossibility. (We’re not specially courageous, we’re just bullheaded… — Markham Shaw Pyle Family Copy Share Image
“Regarding 'Jabez's Prayer', I will say at once that I am a very poor Christian, and indeed a bad man. My besetting… — Markham Shaw Pyle Bad man Copy Share Image
“After all, Christmastide is the time of year for warming brandies, for assertive burgundies and meaty Medoc wines, and for gladsome whiskies.… — Markham Shaw Pyle Christmas Copy Share Image
“If T. S. Eliot had stayed in St Louis, he would never have held that April was the cruelest month. Well, unless… — Markham Shaw Pyle Baseball Copy Share Image
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