...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I d…

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...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.5, Macmillan
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...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.5, Macmillan

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