Carolina QuotesIn New York the opportunities for learning, and acquiring a culture that shall not come out of the ruins, but belong to life, are probably greater than anywhere else in the world.
Thomas Wolfe Carolinian
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- Of Time and the River (1935)
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- 1935
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