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"All southern girls are raised to be nice and polite, can't be anything but, regardless of how meanspirited we might be deep down. The illusion of sweetness, that's all that counts. We don't have to be sincerely sweet, but by God we have to be good at faking it. Southern girls will stab you in the back, same as anyone else, but we'll give you a sugary smile while doing it. -Corrine, "Same Sweet Girls""
— Cassandra King

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"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either."
— Dolly Parton

19 people liked it

"A room without books is like a body without a soul."
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: books, soul
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
15,319 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
16,623 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
18,932 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
11,659 people liked it

"(When asked to use "horticulture" in a sentence) You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think."
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)

tags: horticulture, prostitution, wordplay
165 people liked it

"What fresh hell is this?"
— Dorothy Parker (The Portable Dorothy Parker)

141 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
7,454 people liked it

"These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep."
— Robert Frost

387 people liked it

"It was always so hot, and everyone was so polite, and everything was all surface but underneath it was like a bomb waiting to go off. I always felt that way about the South, that beneath the smiles and southern hospitality and politeness were a lot of guns and liquor and secrets."
— James McBride (The Color of Water 10th Anniversary Edition)

tags: culture, heat, south
6 people liked it

"The problem with being blond and Southern is that, one way or another, your roots are going to show."
— Peaches Washington

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"Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one."
— Flannery O'Connor

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"Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic."
— Flannery O'Connor

16 people liked it

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted."
— Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture)

tags: experience
179 people liked it

" Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you."
— Randy Pausch

tags: inspirational
48 people liked it

"You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you better. "
— Randy Pausch

41 people liked it

""Believe nothing a man tells you and everything he shows you"....(Taken from a farewell video from a dying father to his infant daughter on dating)"
— Randy Pausch

25 people liked it

"You are always in my thoughts. When you were little, I knew your whereabouts at any given moment. Now that you are...off on your own, I still always know where you are, because I keep you in my heart."
— Elizabeth Berg

tags: children
28 people liked it

"Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. "
— Elizabeth Stone

45 people liked it

"She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi."
— Sarah Addison Allen

tags: south
6 people liked it

"The South knows two things through & through; cornbread and Satan. "
— Yam Chestley

2 people liked it

"My mother, Southern to the bone, once told me, “All Southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.’” She raised me up to be a Southern writer, but it wasn’t easy.
- - - Pat Conroy
"
— Pat Conroy

8 people liked it

"That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness..."
— Anne Rivers Siddons (Colony)

tags: southern
4 people liked it

""Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well."

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— --- Florence King

3 people liked it

"“Being a Southern person and a blonde, it's not a good combination. Immediately, when people meet you, they think of you as not being smart.”"
— Reese Witherspoon

3 people liked it

"I'm a...Southern woman and we're supposed to wear funny looking hats and ugly clothes and grow vegetables in the dirt. Don't ask me those questions. I don't know why, I don't make the rules! *burps loudly*"
— Ouiser Boudreaux Steel Magnolias

3 people liked it

"I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'."
— Celia Rivenbark (Bless Your Heart, Tramp: And Other Southern Endearments)

tags: humor, southern, y-all
2 people liked it

"I would rather have thirty minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. "
— Shelby

tags: magnolias, steel
13 people liked it

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