Carolina QuotesI was sitting with a young lady one night, with the television turned up to drown out the screams of the rape victims, when a chap who was hanging a picture next door broke completely through the wall! And this, friends, in the high-rent district.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 178
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
- locator
- p. 178
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