Carolina QuotesThe old church, with its sharp steeple, rotted slowly, decently, prosperously, like a good man's wife.
Thomas Wolfe Carolinian
Source
p. 267
- work
- Look Homeward, Angel (1929)
- year
- 1929
- locator
- p. 267
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