If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill …

Flannery O'Connor
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If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (2015). Wise Blood, p.92, Faber & Faber
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