There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, liv…

Flannery O'Connor
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There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.290, Macmillan
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