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Flannery O'Connor

“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”

Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (FSG Classics) Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
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