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Southern Hospitality Quotes

“Gentlemen are a dying breed. Do your part to help out by supporting them sexually.”

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Author:Alessandra Torre

“Only a man of Colonel Sartoris’ generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“I've found, though, that people are more likely to share their personal experiences if you go first, so that's why I always keep an eleven-point list of what went wrong in my childhood to share with them. Also I usually crack open a bottle of tequila to share with them, because alcohol makes me less nervous, and also because I'm from the South, and in Texas we offer drinks to strangers even when we're waiting in line at the liquor store. In Texas we call that '_southern hospitality_.' The people who own the liquor store call it 'shoplifting.' Probably because they're Yankees. I'm not allowed to go back to that liquor store.”

Alcohol Southern Hospitality

Book:Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

Source: Let's Pretend This Never Happened: A Mostly True Memoir

“And when I moved back to Kentucky, I forgot about waving to other drivers. I forgot about taking that one second to acknowledge who you are sharing a road with. I forgot about how much all of us want so terribly to be together.”

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Author:Belle Townsend

“The mudders we'd met couldn't have been more open and hospitable. They'd generously shared their beverages, hobby, and attitudes-which together comprised a garish stereotype of the rural white South. Unlike Olmsted, I wasn't undercover. But I still felt like an infiltrator.”

Stereotypes Southern Hospitality

Author:Tony Horwitz

“And Miss Marvina, could you bring me my charger? And something to eat from your kitchen? The food here is horrible." The request for food never landed on better ears. "You got it." Marvina whipped up a batch of chicken salad using some of the chicken breast from the Christmas meal surplus. After peeling off the crispy fried skin, the tender meat made for a perfect light sandwich filling. But just in case Kerresha wanted the extra seasoning flavor, Marvina grabbed her container of seasoning, wrapped sandwiches, a bag of chips, and napkins to take back to the hospital. She made enough chicken salad sandwiches to feed all four of them, including Falcon, as well as anyone else who might want a taste 'cause that's what folks with the gift of hospitality do,”

Homecooking Southern Hospitality

Book:Sisters with a Side of Greens

Source: Sisters with a Side of Greens