Carolina Quotes"If you pinned me right down to it," the Old Man said, "I don’t like nothing very much but a hot fire and a warm bed and a quiet woman to fetch me my food. I can generally manage the first two, but I been looking constantly for the basic ingredient of the third. Quiet, I mean."
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
Ch. 9 (pp. 91–2)
- work
- The Old Man's Boy Grows Older (1957)
- year
- 1957
- locator
- pp. 91–2
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