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Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor Quotes: There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.
         

There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.


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