Routine is a condition of survival. — Flannery O'Connor

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Routine is a condition of survival.

Flannery O'Connor

1962

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O'Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988, pt. 3. Originally a letter to A, 10 Feb. 1962.

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