Carolina QuotesIn first class, you count on your fellow passengers to make you feel good about yourself. You're supposed to look around with pride, telling yourself that these are your kind of people.
David Sedaris Connected to the Carolinas
Source
21.07.2001 - p.445
- work
- Theft by Finding: Diaries, Volume 1 (1977-2002) (2017)
- year
- 1977
- locator
- p.445
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“In first class, you count on your fellow passengers to make …” David Sedaris. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-FDA63D30BD. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/fda63d30bd
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