Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

Flannery O'Connor

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• Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Author
  • Georgia
  • Pig