Flannery O'Connor - Everything That Rises Must Converge

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She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

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He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery.

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He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.' 'What you got on it?' the girl said. 'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.' 'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

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Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

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She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, through she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

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Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

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