It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't…

Flannery O'Connor
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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.76, Macmillan
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It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can get away with, but nobody has ever gotten away with much. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.76, Macmillan

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