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Flannery O'Connor

“The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a story as if it were a research problem for which any answer is believable so long as it is not obvious, then I think students will never learn to enjoy fiction. Too much interpretation is certainly worse than too little, and where feeling for a story is absent, theory will not supply it.”

Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor
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