“Today I got a letter from a man who said he had spent his childhood among characters such as I had portrayed. Poor man. He said since he had seen them in print they burdened his conscience less.”
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Flannery O'Connor
letter to Catharine Carver dated August 10, 1955, in Letters of Flannery O’Connor: The Habit of Being (New York: Vintage Books, 1980), 95. (Catherine Carver was O’Connor’s longtime editor at Harcourt Brace.)view on Google Books
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