Carolina QuotesWho lives longer? the man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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In Kevin A Fabiano, The Shortcut: 20 Stories to Get You From Here to There (2006), p. 179
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