Nostalgia Quote by Carson McCullers

“We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known” quote by Carson McCullers — Download Open image

““We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known””

Carson McCullers

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