Carolina Quotes
My mother, southern to the bone, once told me, “All southern literature can be summed up in these words: ‘On the night the hogs ate Willie, Mama died when she heard what Daddy did to Sister.'”
Pat Conroy Carolinian
Source
Address to the American Booksellers Association convention, 1985
- form
- speech
- work
- Address to the American Booksellers Association
- year
- 1985
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“My mother, southern to the bone, once told me, “All southern…” Pat Conroy. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-C7A34368B2. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/c7a34368b2
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