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When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one. The meaning of a story has to be embodied in it… . A story that is any good can’t be reduced, it can only be expanded. A story is good when you continue to see more and more in it, and when it continues to escape you.

Flannery O’Connor, from Mystery and Manners

I could stand to have this taped to the inside of my glasses.

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