Carolina QuotesThe Old Man just claimed that the stature of the man was measured by how much he could smile when fate was beating him over the head with a stick.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 15 (p. 164)
- work
- The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- p. 164
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"Rich," the Old Man said dreamily, "is not baying after what you can't have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whisky to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven't got."
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I was sitting with a young lady one night, with the television turned up to drown out the screams of the rape victims, when a chap who was hanging a picture next door broke completely through the wall! And this, friends, in the high-rent district.