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“It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.” quote by Flannery O'Connor — Download Open image

“It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.”

Flannery O'Connor

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Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

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“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.”

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