“When people think they are smart -even when they are smart- there is nothing anybody else can say to make them see things straight, and with Asbury, the trouble was that in addition to being smart, he had an artistic temperament…”
O’Connor, The Enduring Chill
Everything that Rises must Converge (p.87)
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