From a 1960 letter Flannery O’Connor wrote to her friend Maryat Lee. The letter is collected in The Habit of Being.
“I hope you don’t have any friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you” (Flannery O’Connor)
From a 1960 letter Flannery O’Connor wrote to her friend Maryat Lee. The letter is collected in The Habit of Being.
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You’re such a super lady!
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Flannery, so great!
Rand, money worshiping, hateful piece of crap. Oh and she collected Social Security. Just sayin’…
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Thanks. FOC was one tough broad! Regards thom
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Ouch!
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Jealous of a much better writer maybe? O’Connor was very religious, so that’s probably where it stems from.
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Rand a better writer than O’Connor? Yours is certainly an original point of view.
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