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I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.
I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on religion. His troubles come down just to that.
Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
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- Carson McCullers
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- Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Carson McCullers: documented activity in 1936. Wikidata Q230591, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q230591 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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