Carolina Quotes"This is the way to burn," the fuse seemed to be saying to the more docile, slow-witted candlewick. "Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn."
Tom Robbins Carolinian
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- Still Life with Woodpecker (1980)
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- 1980
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