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The Last Tales of Uncle Remus Quotes
The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
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The Last Tales of Uncle Remus Quotes
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“From the Introduction from the author:
Uncle Remus loves tradition. For him tradition is not an act of preserving the past, but an understanding of values, values that a newer age has increasingly little sense of. Uncle Remus knows what is right and what is wrong and suffers no confusion or doubt about which is which. This is part of the comfort and safety generations of children have found in him and his storytelling. He represents certainty; and childhood, with its constant change and growth, is anything but secure and safe.”
― The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
Uncle Remus loves tradition. For him tradition is not an act of preserving the past, but an understanding of values, values that a newer age has increasingly little sense of. Uncle Remus knows what is right and what is wrong and suffers no confusion or doubt about which is which. This is part of the comfort and safety generations of children have found in him and his storytelling. He represents certainty; and childhood, with its constant change and growth, is anything but secure and safe.”
― The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
“From the Introduction by the author:
Uncle Remus...is the archetypal good father. He jokes, he teases, he pretends to be annoyed, he feigns anger and hurt when offended. But we know the truth of the man is his dignity, his self-respect, and above all, his love.
It is a love that is difficult to describe, especially in a time when love is sentimentalized in an unceasing effluvium of popular music, television drams, and films. Thus, we forget or never learn that love is tough, that loves has the brilliant hardness of diamonds, the cutting clarity of the most rational thought.”
― The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
Uncle Remus...is the archetypal good father. He jokes, he teases, he pretends to be annoyed, he feigns anger and hurt when offended. But we know the truth of the man is his dignity, his self-respect, and above all, his love.
It is a love that is difficult to describe, especially in a time when love is sentimentalized in an unceasing effluvium of popular music, television drams, and films. Thus, we forget or never learn that love is tough, that loves has the brilliant hardness of diamonds, the cutting clarity of the most rational thought.”
― The Last Tales of Uncle Remus
