“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”

— Flannery O’Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

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American novelist, short story writer 1925–1964

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