Carolina QuotesIf they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 17 (pp. 196–7)
- work
- The Old Man and the Boy (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- pp. 196–7
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“If they keep exposing you to education, you might even reali…” Robert Ruark. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-344F484E11. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/344f484e11
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