Carolina QuotesThey belonged to that futile, desolate, and forsaken horde who felt that all will be well with their lives, that all the power they lack themselves will be supplied, and all the anguish, fury, and unrest, the confusion and the dark damnation of man's soul can magically be healed if only they eat bran for breakfast.
Thomas Wolfe Carolinian
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- Of Time and the River (1935)
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- 1935
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