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Some people will stay at home and be content there. Others are born to run. It's that conflict that fascinates me.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Born Conflict Content Fascinates Home Me Others People Run Some Some People Stay Will

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In America, we all come from somewhere else, and we carry along some dream myth of home: a notion that something - our point of origin, our roots, the home country - is out there.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Along America Carry Come Country Dream Else Home Myth Notion Origin Our Out Point Roots Some Something Somewhere Somewhere Else

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You have to realize that, when it comes to the South, we carry around a lot of baggage. The South lost the war, and I spent years denying my culture.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Around Baggage Carry Culture Denying Lost Lot Realize South Spent War Years You

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Memory is a powerful thing for a writer.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Memory Powerful Powerful Thing Thing Writer

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With the accent, it's an internal dialogue that Southerners have with themselves. We kind of carry around that shame, that feeling of being inferior to the North. I think I did lose some of the accent for a while. Because when I was a graduate student, I was terrified at having to get up in front of a roomful of smart New York kids.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Accent Around Because Being Carry Dialogue Did Feeling Front Get Graduate Graduate Student Having Inferior Internal Kids Kind Lose New New York North Shame Smart Some Southerners Student Terrified Themselves Think Up While York I Think

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It was important for me to understand who I am and where I came from. To get a hold on why I do certain things.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Am Came Certain Certain Things Get Hold Important Me Things Understand Where Who Why I Am I Came

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We had a cistern for water. My grandmother churned butter and made lye soap. She and my mother did the washing in a wash kettle outdoors, using a fire to heat the water. That's the way they did the wash until the 1950s.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Butter Did Fire Grandmother Had Heat Made Mother Outdoors She Soap Until Using Wash Washing Water Way 1950S

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I wanted to be somebody, go somewhere, do something with my life.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Go Life My Life Somebody Something Somewhere Wanted

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My father had all these great names for our cows. Bossy and Daisy and Petunia and Turnip. One of my jobs was to round up the cows before milking. I'd go out back with the dog and bring them in.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Back Before Bossy Bring Cows Daisy Dog Father Go Great Had Jobs Names Our Out Round Them Up

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I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

~Bobbie Ann Mason

Topics: Anything Me Nobody Read Shy Tell Too

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: May 1st, 1940

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