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Flannery O'Connor
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ✨ Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose The Nature and Aims of Fiction (1969)
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Nobody with a good car needs to be justified. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (2007). Wise Blood: A Novel, p.109, Macmillan
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this pro … ▶
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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, … ▶
Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady, it is a remarkable product.” My mother was vastly insulted. She put the emphasis on if … ▶

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ✨ Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose The Nature and Aims of Fiction (1969)

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