Quotes from Julie Smith

New Orleans, though technically a city, is more like a nation unto itself; though legally a piece of America, it's Caribbean in its soul, as exotic an adventure as exists short of navigating the Amazon.

We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.d

Despite the French passage of the Taubira Law in 2001, which recognized slavery and the slave trade as a crime against humanity, the French continued to believe they were never as bad as the Americans.

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That stuff'll kill you." "What? Your coffee?" Jack was just doctoring his second cup. "No. All that saccharine. You're poisoning yourself." "We've all gotta go sometime." Jack went right about then.

Client reports. Jack was a private detective." "I don't understand." "I'm— uh— a ghostwriter.

Irma La Douce

I write detective novels when I'm not ghostwriting. I'd never gotten any of them published, and that, of course, was the main thing I didn't want to think about. But writing them is what keeps me going.

Even as we desire new life and more life, we must realize that a part of us— of each individual person, black or white— has to die into that new life.

If he really didn't want women to call him at the office, he probably shouldn't have told them that. It's like when somebody says. 'whatever you do, don't open that door.' Of course that's the door you're going to open.

There's something about hitting rock bottom that makes two inches higher seem like Mount Diablo.

It was funny, Skip thought, how much attention children demanded the first few years of their lives and how hard adults strove ever after to get their attention.