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    “In the South, history clings to you like a wet blanket. Outside your door the past awaits in Indian mounds, plantation ruins, heaving sidewalks and homestead graveyards; each slowly reclaimed by the kudzu of time.”
    ― Tim Heaton, Don't Be Ugly: The G-Rated companion book to “Momma n ‘Em Said."
    tags: southern, southerners, the-south
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    “I'm not unlucky at love, just incredibly lucky with celibacy.”
    ― tim heaton
    tags: love-quotes, unrequited-love
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    “To life lived fully: to laughter, to have loved and lost, to be remembered for the good fight.”
    ― Tim Heaton, Tetragrammaton: Cracking the Voynich Manuscript
    tags: game-of-life, life-quotes
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    “Explaining the myriad delights of a football Saturday in the South to anyone who has not enjoyed them may be impossible – like trying to describe the ocean to a blind man.”
    ― Tim Heaton, Don't Be Ugly: The G-Rated companion book to “Momma n ‘Em Said."
    tags: football, southern, southerners
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  • #5
    “If reputations were face tats, the world would be a better place.”
    ― Tim Heaton, Tetragrammaton: Cracking the Voynich Manuscript
    tags: inspirational, reputation, tattoo
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    “He avoided unpleasant topics until they had time to mellow with age; like bourbon, about a dozen years were needed to mellow the unpalatable.”
    ― Tim Heaton, Tetragrammaton: Cracking the Voynich Manuscript
    tags: relationship-quotes, southern-writers
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  • #7
    “If there is such a things as "race", there is only the Human one.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: race, southern, southerner
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  • #8
    “Those in the know ain't telling me or you.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: wall-street
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    “I am often asked “Why do Southerners still care about the Civil War?”… Because it is unique in the American experience. Defeat was total, surrender unconditional and the land still occupied.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: civil-war, southerners, the-south
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  • #10
    “I have zero tolerance for people with zero tolerance.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: tolerance
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  • #11
    “Magic of Southern expressions? Similes and metaphorical allusions. They are the yellow highlighter of conversation.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: southern, southern-authors, southern-writers, southerners
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  • #12
    Ernest Hemingway
    “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: truth, writing, writing-advice
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  • #13
    “To living in the South: If you've never had a Porterhouse, everything tastes like baloney.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: southern-authors, southerners
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  • #14
    “Yoga pants often answer questions I didn't ask.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: fashion, fat, funny-quotes
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  • #15
    “Even-money that my liver lasts through my wife's metamorphosis to my mother-in-law.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: funny-quotes, mother-in-law
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  • #16
    “The further your job is from the money, the closer you are to the bullshit.”
    ― Tim Heaton
    tags: career-advice, humor
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  • #17
    Ludwig von Mises
    “He who is unfit to serve his fellow citizens wants to rule them.”
    ― Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy
    tags: anarcho-capitalism, anarchy, ancap, austrian-school-of-economics, free-market, freedom, laissez-faire, libertarian, liberty, statism, voluntaryism
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    Laurence Gonzales
    “Bureaucracies force us to practice nonsense. And if you rehearse nonsense, you may one day find yourself the victim of it.”
    ― Laurence Gonzales, Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things
    tags: bureaucracy, nonsense
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  • #19
    “Bureaucracies are a strange beast whose only goal is obesity.”
    ― Tim Heaton, The Southerners Guide To Surviving New York City: How not to get yourself killed.
    tags: bureaucracies
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    “The American South is an authentic American Culture. Maybe the last. The north is just a Casserole Culture – a tasteless vat of leftovers, frozen peas and stale crumbs.”
    ― Tim Heaton, The Southerners Guide To Surviving New York City: How not to get yourself killed.
    tags: southern-writers, southerners
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  • #21
    “It’s not difficult telling enemies from friends.
    • Your enemies say, “You don’t need to work hard.” Your friends say, “Always do your best.”
    • Your enemies say, “Just quit.” Your friends say, “Never give up.”
    • Your enemies say, “No one will ever know.” Your friends say, “Always do the right thing.”
    • Your enemies say, “Let’s get high.” Your friends say, “Rest in Peace.”
    ― Tim Heaton, Bless Your Heart, You Freakin' Idiot: Southern Sayings Translated
    tags: friends, parenting, parenting-advice, parenting-teens, parents
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    P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
    “If you are playing the game without wounds, you are not playing the game, you are watching the game. If you are playing the game with wounds, you are not playing the game, you are mastering the game”
    ― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
    tags: game-of-life, game-quotes, master-quotes, wounds-to-wisdom
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  • #23
    “If misery loves company, then no one in your company will every be lonely.”
    ― Tim Heaton, Bless Your Heart, You Freakin' Idiot: Southern Sayings Translated
    tags: funny, inspirational, leadership
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  • #24
    William W. Purkey
    “You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
    Love like you'll never be hurt,
    Sing like there's nobody listening,
    And live like it's heaven on earth.”
    ― William W. Purkey
    tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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  • #25
    “Utopia is that idyllic place just before the mass graves are dug.”
    ― Tim Heaton, INKARRI
    tags: boredom, perfection, utopia
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  • #26
    Dylan Thomas
    “Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
    ― Dylan Thomas, Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
    tags: death-and-dying, inspirational, philosophy, poetry
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