I said to one of my students a couple of years ago, what is it with you people You never get off the phone to one another, you travel through whole continents to be with one another for 14 hours. And he said, Mr. Price, we had to invent families of our own, our own families disappeared.
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I think if we are realistic, the South - the old Confederate states - really only has one entirely unique feature that other parts of the country don't have, and that is this nearly 400-year history of tremendous intimacy, in every sense of the word, good and evil, between two very different kinds of peoples people who were brought here against their wishes from Africa and a largely Anglo-white population.Reynolds Price
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.
Reynolds Price
Everybody was there. A bachelor aunt or uncle. You would all come to the table, even some stone-deaf member of the family, usually the oldest ... and he would mumble something under his breath.
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What I still ask for daily - for life as long as I have work to do, and work as long as I have life
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The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.
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