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“The past is a terrible place to live, but some people can make a home nowhere else.”
Nicholas Bouler, Heart In Dixie
“know more  than we do and are entitled to respect.”
Nick Bouler, Heart In Dixie
“Southerners believe that courtesy is more important than politics, that it is far better to be neighborly than to win an  argument, that patriotism is not old-fashioned, that children say “M’am” and “Sir” to their elders because the elderly”
Nick Bouler, Heart In Dixie
“Like neighborhoods and  churches,  fraternities  are  divided by class,”
Nick Bouler, Heart In Dixie
“we say mama.” That’s part of being Southern, you see? We recognize that talking means a lot more than just the words you use. The sound of the words, how you say ‘em, whether it’s high or low, loud or soft, the meaning is all of that. That’s why it’s so easy to insult us. We don’t just”
Nick Bouler, Heart In Dixie
“But a Southern lady does feel a certain duty to be well informed about her community.”
Nick Bouler, Heart In Dixie
“The past is never over. It’s not even past”
Nick Bouler, Heart In Dixie
“Thus the crowd could fully concentrate on a key purpose of the event — socializing. A football game was not quite as good for this as a funeral, since the people you wanted to see were much more scattered out. But many of them were better dressed.”
Nick Bouler, Heart In Dixie