The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and …

Flannery O'Connor
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.59, Macmillan
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