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“You may be whatever you resolve to be.”
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“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”
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“That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind
“My kinfolks thought more about character than about culture. They said culture could be acquired but character had to be formed. Character had to be hammered into shape like hot iron on an anvil. It had to be molded in the most exact and unrelenting form.”
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
“It was not the goal that really concerned us, the journey was the thing. Who ever reaches any goal? From what journey can we return? We know of the poverty about us, of the work and worry, but we know of a degree of freedom, of a stunted beauty. We have warm open days and sunshine in Carolina. Much is denied us. But we have, we have. And an attitude is more powerful than any circumstance.”
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
― Red Hills and Cotton: An Upcountry Memory
Chad’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Chad’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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