The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fictio…

Flannery O'Connor
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.67, Macmillan
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