Carolina QuotesGertrude Johnson could feel no real respect for, no real interest in, anybody who wasn't a writer. For her there were two species: writers and people; and the writers were really people, and the people weren't.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
Chapter 1, p. 22
- work
- Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel]
- year
- 1954
- locator
- p. 22
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