I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. (Flannery O’Connor)

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

Flannery O’Connor

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