Flannery O'Connor

…I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

…I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.

– Flannery O’Connor –

The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor

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