It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea tha…

Flannery O'Connor
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It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.67, Macmillan
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It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.67, Macmillan

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