| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 09a8f6c | Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum. | louisiana insanity | James Lee Burke | |
| 5532446 | Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air - moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh - felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. | louisiana south | Tom Robbins | |
| db9ad20 | Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature. The air--moist, sultry, secretive, and far from fresh--felt as if it were being exhaled into one's face. Sometimes it even sounded like heavy breathing. Honeysuckle, swamp flowers, magnolia, and the mystery smell of the river scented the atmosphere, amplifying the intrusion of organic sleaze. It was aphrodisiac and repressive, soft and violent at the same time. In New Orleans, in the French Quarter, miles from the barking lungs of alligators, the air maintained this quality of breath, although here it acquired a tinge of metallic halitosis, due to fumes expelled by tourist buses, trucks delivering Dixie beer, and, on Decatur Street, a mass-transit motor coach named Desire. | decatur dixie-beer magnolias honeysuckle louisiana smell french-quarter new-orleans scent | Tom Robbins | |
| 2c63938 | I also believe my home state is cursed by ignorance and poverty and racism, much of it deliberately inculcated to control a vulnerable electorate. And I believe many of the politicians in Louisiana are among the most stomach-churning examples of white trash and venality I have ever known. To me, the fact that large numbers of people find them humorously picaresque is mind numbing, on a level with telling fond tales of one's rapist. | politics louisiana | James Lee Burke | |
| f9d78e5 | Colored or not, we all pick the white man's cotton. | cajun louisiana | James Lee Burke | |
| e76620a | Until the Civil War there was scarcely a man in public life in New Orleans or Louisiana who had not fought at least one duel; most of them had engaged in several. | louisiana new-orleans | Herbert Asbury |