Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about li…

Flannery O'Connor
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Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.84, Macmillan
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Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.84, Macmillan

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