Carolina QuotesOnly choice between the brand-spankers and the reconverts is to live in the suburbs, and that means trains. Oy vay. Trains. The trouble with train people is that they think they are still living in an early Harriman era. They think they are still in the railroad business.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 178
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
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- p. 178
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