The Courting of Marcus Dupree Quotes

“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 across it, with no one in the world knowing where I am, languidly absorbing the thoughts and memories of old moments, of people vanished now from my life.”
― Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree

“As with many Southern Writers, I believe that the special quality of the land itself indelibly shapes the people who dwell upon it.”
― Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree

“The rugged, primitive hills sometimes soar to dizzying heights, then stretch downward into low-lying valleys and bottomlands where the cotton, soybeans, and corn have always prospered, and the splendid pines and hardwoods in both the hills and the bottoms lend a fine beauty to the hard earth.”
― Willie Morris, The Courting of Marcus Dupree