"My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization."
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"There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal."
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"In Southern Europe, we have, of course, very bad governments."
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"Nixon was a Southern Rim President, and so antipathetic to the old guard."
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"It is hard to have a Southern overseer; it is worse to have a Northern one; but worst of all when you are yourself the slave-driver."
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"In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it."
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"People in north Michigan are not different at all from people in southern Alabama. Trust me, someone who's spent a lot of time in both places. They're all hardworking, simple people."
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"And as part of my activity there, he had indicated he wanted me to work with him on that and conduct the various technical tests. And so a few months later I moved from Southern California up to the Monterey Peninsula where I still live today."
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"did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking"
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"I find in my poetry and prose the rhythms and imagery of the best - I mean, when I'm at my best - of the good Southern black preachers. The lyricism of the spirituals and the directness of gospel songs and the mystery of blues are in my music or in my poetry and prose, or I missed everything."
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"I don't do cold. My reaction to cold is drastic. I'm a southern boy."
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"Terry Southern is the illegitimate son of Mack Sennett and Edna Saint Vincent Millay."
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