Carolina Quotes...in this world, often, there is nothing to praise but no one to blame...
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“On Preparing to Read Kipling”, p. 135
- work
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
- year
- 1962
- locator
- p. 135
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