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Flannery O'Connor

“He don't know it's anything he can't know," the old man said. "That's his trouble. He thinks if it's something he can't know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there, the first thing he would do would be to test your head and tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn't belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.”

Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
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The Violent Bear It Away The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
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