Carolina QuotesI have visited friends—reasonably affluent, and of dissimilar sexes—in what the real-estate racket calls "luxury housing," and have fled in horrified relief to a goathide tent in Timbuktu.
Robert Ruark Carolinian
Source
p. 178
- work
- "Nothing Works and Nobody Cares" (1965)
- year
- 1965
- locator
- p. 178
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If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.