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Flannery O'Connor

“The novelist is required to create the illusion of a whole world with believable people in it, and the chief difference between the novelist who is an orthodox Christian and the novelist who is merely a naturalist is that the Christian novelist lives in a larger universe. He believes that the natural world contains the supernatural. And this doesn't mean that his obligation to portray the natural is less; it means it is greater.”

Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (FSG Classics) Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor
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