Carolina QuotesReality is what we want it to be or what we do not want it to be, but it is not our wanting or our not wanting that makes it so.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
“Malraux and the Statues at Bamberg”, p. 191
- work
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket: Essays & Fables (1962)
- year
- 1962
- locator
- p. 191
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