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Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern

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Author or tradition
Flannery O'Connor
Attribution: attributed
Country attributed
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Historical period
Approximate author period: c. 1944 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1925 to 1964; Wikidata Q234579, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q234579 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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Recorded source
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Supplied reference C; CSV row 247083; supplied attribution, independently unverified

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