Carolina QuotesTurn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry Carolinian
Source
Last words, quoting a 1907 song by Harry Williams. (5 June 1910) Quoted in O. Henry Biography, ch. 9, Charles Alphonso Smith (1916).
- year
- 1907
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“Turn up the lights — I don't want to go home in the dark.” O. Henry. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-3269B38044. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/3269b38044
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