Chris Rose Quotes

• Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

  Chris Rose

  Funny, Humorous, Usa

  "1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina". Book by Chris Rose, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2005.

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• If there was no New Orleans, America would just be a bunch of free people dying of boredom." -Judy Deck in an e-mail sent to Chris Rose

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  New Orleans, America, People

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• I'm not going to lay down in words the lure of this place. Every great writer in the land, from Faulkner to Twain to Rice to Ford, has tried to do it and fallen short. It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words and to try is to roll down a road of clichés, bouncing over beignets and beads and brass bands and it just is what it is. It is home.

  Chris Rose

  Home, Land, Essence

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• The longer you live in New Orleans, the more unfit you become to live anywhere else.

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans

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• we dance even if there's no radio. we drink at funerals. we talk too much & laugh too loud & live too large, and, frankly, we're suspicious of others who don't.

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, Laughing, Funeral

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• Mardi Gras is the love of life. It is the harmonic convergence of our food, our music, our creativity, our eccentricity, our neighborhoods, and our joy of living. All at once.

  Chris Rose

  Love Life, Creativity, Joy

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• A New Orleans credo: When life gives you lemons--make daiquiris.

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  New Orleans, Giving, Daiquiris

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.248, Simon and Schuster

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• If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

  Chris Rose

  Silence, Speak, Ifs

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible to capture the essence, tolerance, and spirit of south Louisiana in words.

  Chris Rose

  Essence, Brass Bands, Tolerance

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

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• To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default.

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  Meaningful, New Orleans, Cities

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• ...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

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  New Orleans, Somewhere Else, Rose

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• Do what you do. This Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Twelfth Night, Valentine's Day, Mardi Gras, St. Paddy's Day, and every day henceforth. Just do what you do. Live out your life and your traditions on your own terms. If it offends others, so be it. That's their problem.

  Chris Rose

  New Year, Valentine, Night

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• When I am introduced as someone from New Orleans, people sometimes say: "I'm so sorry." New Orleans. I'm so sorry. That's not the way it was before,not the way it's supposed to be. When people find out you're from New Orleans, they're supposed to tell you about how they got drunk there once, or fell in love there, or first heard the music there that changed their lives. At worst people would say: "I've always wanted to go there." But now, it's just: "I'm sorry." Man, that kills me. That just kills me.

  Chris Rose

  Sorry, Men, New Orleans

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Even at the End of Days, there will be lap dancing.

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  Dancing, The End Of The Day, Lap

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody here has a story. New Orleans was always a place where people talked too much even if they had nothing to say. Now everyone's got something to say.

  Chris Rose

  New Orleans, People, Stories

  Chris Rose (2015). “1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is running out for the climate

  Chris Rose

  Running, Climate, Global Warming

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