It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.Flannery OConnor
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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