I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not…

Flannery O'Connor
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I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.27, Macmillan

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