I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it wil…

Flannery O'Connor
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.358, Macmillan
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