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I suppose the desire to go to town helped make me ambitious, and the allure of the worlds that came in over the radio also helped. But the rewards of growing up on a farm were far greater in many ways than life in town.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Allure Also Ambitious Came Desire Far Farm Go Greater Growing Growing Up Helped Life Make Many Me Over Radio Rewards Suppose Than Town Up Ways Were Worlds

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Rock and roll is about desire, about wanting something better. I think my characters all want something better. My understanding of the rock and roll dream is that a kid in an isolated place or a small town or an underprivileged world could transcend it somehow.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Better Characters Could Desire Dream Isolated Kid Place Rock Rock And Roll Roll Small Small Town Somehow Something Think Town Transcend Underprivileged Understanding Want Wanting World I Think

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Mama was a natural cook. At harvest time, she would whip up a noontime dinner for the men in the field: fried chicken with milk gravy, ham, mashed potatoes, lima beans, field peas, corn, slaw, sliced tomatoes, fried apples, biscuits, and peach pie.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Apples Beans Biscuits Chicken Cook Corn Dinner Field Fried Fried Chicken Gravy Ham Harvest Mama Men Milk Natural Peach Peas Pie Potatoes She Time Tomatoes Up Whip Would

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Most of the time I was in the Northeast, I lived in the country, and I think that helped me to discover my material for writing.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Country Discover Helped Lived Material Me Most Northeast Think Time Writing I Think

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Since 'Huckleberry Finn,' or thereabouts, it seemed that all American literature was about the alienated hero.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: About Alienated American American Literature Hero Huckleberry Finn Literature Seemed Since

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My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Around Back Bad Came Cloud Evening Morrow Mother Over Sign Skies Then Turned Watched

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Because we lived only a mile outside the town of Mayfield, I was acutely conscious of being country. I felt inferior to people in town because we had to grow our food and make our clothes.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Because Being Clothes Conscious Country Felt Food Grow Had Inferior Lived Make Mile Only Our Outside People Town

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The farm is one field to the east of the railroad track that used to connect New Orleans with Chicago. The track runs beside Highway 45, an old U.S. route that unites Chicago with Mobile, Alabama.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Alabama Beside Chicago Connect East Farm Field Highway Mobile New New Orleans Old Orleans Railroad Route Runs Track Unites Used

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The way I see it, a clever cat prowls but calls home occasionally.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Calls Cat Clever Home Occasionally See Way I See

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I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Blues Grew Rhythm Rock Rock And Roll Roll Up

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 1st, 1940

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