Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if …

Flannery O'Connor
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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.68, Macmillan
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Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.68, Macmillan

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