Willie Morris Quotes

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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 him…
• I came across a photograph of him not long ago... his black face, the long snout sniffing at something in the air, his tail straight…
• I have always had a love for American geography, and especially for the landscapes of the South. One of my pleasures has been to drive…
• As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.
• It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
• When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.
• 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 himself…
• His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

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