Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant f…

Flannery O'Connor
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Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.44, Macmillan
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Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.44, Macmillan

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