London Country South

Famous quotes containing the words london, country and/or south:

    “London ... remains a man’s city where New York is chiefly a woman’s. London has whole streets that cater to men’s wants. It has its great solid phalanx of fortress clubs.”
    —Louis Kronenberger (1904–1980)

    “The country is an archipelago of lakes,—the lake-country of New England.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)