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Alyssa

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Alyssa’s Quotes

“The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

tags: funny, parkers-back

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“His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

tags: a-view-of-the-woods, beautiful

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“No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”
― Isaac Babel, The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel

tags: writing

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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.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

tags: funny, parkers-back

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