The Heavily Abridged Life & Times

May 25
“You take now,” he said, “one man puts in one bolt and another man puts in another bolt and another man puts in another bolt so that it’s a man for a bolt. That’s why you have to pay so much for a car: you’re paying all those men. Now if you didn’t have to pay but one man, you could get you a cheaper car and one that had had a personal interest taken in it, and it would be a better car.” Flannery O’Connor, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”

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