Carolina QuotesSome of the conversations from next door, upstairs and downstairs would make an interesting addendum for the memoirs of Christine Keeler. You can hear beds squeak all round; you can hear toilets flush. On a clear day, you can hear a cockroach belch.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 178
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
- locator
- p. 178
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