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“If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
“A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
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“we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
“I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is.
It is home.”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
It is home.”
― 1 Dead in Attic: Post-Katrina Stories
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