It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchc…

Truman Capote
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It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something ✨ Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). Some postwar American writers
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