Carolina Quotes...we are willing to admit the normality of the abnormal — are willing to admit that we never understood the normal better than when it has been allowed to reach its full growth and become the abnormal.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“An Unread Book”, p. 5
- work
- The Third Book of Criticism (1969)
- year
- 1969
- locator
- p. 5
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