Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind wi…

Flannery O'Connor
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.29, Macmillan
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