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1. "Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the State's Rights issue. These matters contributed to the quarrel, but there is a deeper reason. It was bought on by some Yankee coming down south and putting nutmeg in a julep. So our folks up and left the Union flat." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
2. "If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
3. "Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
4. "A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
5. "A woman may have a witty tongue or a stinging pen but she will never laugh at her own individual shortcomings." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
6. "An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
7. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
8. "A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
9. "Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have shown the white birches pale and shivering in a sudden ague, and here and there an ash or a sumac burning red, like a hectic spot, where the first frosts already had set the marks of their galloping consumption on the cheek of the forest, giving warning of the time when the white plague of the winter would make a massacre of all this present glory and turn the trees to naked skeletons and stretch a bony bare cadaver on every steeper hillside to bleach there until the snows covered things up. But now the kindly nighttime had all signs and threats of approaching death, so that each shriveled speckled leaf, as revealed and traced in the waning light, seemed flawless — a perfect part of a perfect tapestry." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
10. "Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
11. "He also could feel it in his nostrils like an impalpable soot; the emanations of the millions about them, packed away at night in layers like martins in martin boxes and by day wriggling and squirming down between the tall buildings like larvae enclosed within the ribs of a dead horse; and with this effluvia of humans, the taint of burnt gasoline and burnt lubricating oils and the smoke and the coal grit and the dirt motes that were churned and rechurned and never at rest— the Pollen of the City." ~ Irvin S. Cobb
12. "Son, it ain't that flag we've got a gredge ag'inst, it's the fellers that air bidin' under her now. They're our middlin'-meat, or will be when the fusees start poppin'. But that flag's all hunky-dory. Come to that, she's ez much our'n ez she is ther'n. She's fell into bad company for the time bein', that's all. And it ain't her fault, ez I can see it and ez all here sees it. So let her flaunt!" ~ Irvin S. Cobb
13. "Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime." ~ Irvin S. Cobb

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