I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irr…

Flannery O'Connor
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I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (2012). Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons, p.112, Fantagraphics Books
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I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (2012). Flannery O'Connor: The Cartoons, p.112, Fantagraphics Books

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