If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were the connection an historical fact, they would not stand connected as art, for no one experiences raw history.
Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.
We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
I'm not a historian who thinks Confederate memorials should be boarded up.
Death created the modern American union, not just by ensuring national survival, but by shaping enduring national structures and commitments. The work of death was Civil War America's most fundamental and most demanding undertaking.
Something is wanting, and something must be done, or we shall be involved in all the horror of failure, and civil war without a prospect of its termination.
History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
If Lincoln were alive today, he'd be turning over in his grave.