There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these ti…

Flannery O'Connor
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There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements and statements not quite as satisfying as statistics; but in the long run, a people is known, not by its statements or its statistics, but by the stories it tells. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.192, Macmillan
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