Flannery O'Connor Quotes
He Said When He Went To Sell A Man A Flue, He Asked First About That Man's Wife's Health And How His Children Were. He Said He Had A Book That He Kept The Names Of His Customers' Families And What Was Wrong With Them. A Man's Wife Had Cancer, He Put Her Name Down In The Book And Wrote 'cancer' After It And Inquired About Her Every Time He Went To That Man's Hardware Store Until She Died; Then He Scratched Out The Word 'cancer' And Wrote 'dead' There. "And I Say Thank God When They're Dead," The Salesman Said; "that's One Less To Remember.
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