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“A depressingly high rate of self destruction prevails among those who ponder about the South and put down their reflections in books. A fatal frustration seems to come from the struggle to find a way through the unfathomable maze formed by tradition, caste, race and poverty. In view of this record, for reasons of personal comfort, if for no other, the inclination to look for a ray of hope in the progress of the South is strong . . . Despair need not be the only outcome.”

— V. O. Key, in Southern Politics in State and Nation

“I don’t hate it,” Quentin said quickly, at once, immediately. “I don’t hate it, he said. ‘I don’t hate it,’ he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark. I don’t. I don’t! I don’t hate it! I don’t hate it!”

— William Faulkner, in Absalom, Absalom!