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Quotation of the Day for May 29, 2015"Here's what I wanted to ask Marse Robert: "Oh, why didn't you ramble? After all these years in New Orleans, haven't you learned that everybody owes it to himself, and to those around him, to ramble some?" I don't mean screw around, I mean loosen up. I associate Lee with my father, who was honorable, who was self-sacrificially community-minded, who rarely took a drink, who died when he was sixty, three years younger than I am now. My mother was already worrying about his heart when he was only forty-nine. I wish my father had laisser le bon temps rouler more often. With me, for instance. But he was a child of hard times." - Roy Blount, Jr., from his 2005 book, Feet on the Street: Rambles around New Orleans. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 28, 2015  |
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