Carolina Quotes
I urge my fiction students to put something funny on each page and something beautiful on every other one.
Allan Gurganus Carolinian
Source
"Artistry is a Kind of Citizenship," interview with Megan Mayhew Bergman, Ploughshares, June 24, 2015
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- interview
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- Artistry is a Kind of Citizenship
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- 2015
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