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His house to me was a child was a heart of happiness. If there is a wonder childhood possesses which makes it forever superior to what shall come after, it is the happy and uncritical love of whatever is happy, place or person, it does not matter which.


Elizabeth Spencer


#happiness #love #mississippi-authors #love

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.


Brad Watson


#mississippi #short-story #men

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was just not there anymore. More than ever I began to wonder whether God actually existed. Maybe God changed as the individual changed, or perhaps grew as one grew.


Anne Moody


#civil-rights #coming-of-age-in-mississippi #faith #god #nature

The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in my home state of Mississippi, they put me on steroids, thinking they were doing the right thing, and I had a violent reaction.


Mary Ann Mobley


#attack #away #doing #doing the right thing #had

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.


Zebulon Pike


#difficulty #henry #him #his #horses

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.


Anne Moody


#mississippi-authors #age

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.


Carl Clinton Van Doren


#already #away #borders #closer #conquest

Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.


Buddy Guy


#because #down #everyone #i #knew

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.


Anne Moody


#courage #mississippi-authors #age

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.


Margaret McMullan


#mississippi #young-adult-fiction #life






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