The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.Flannery OConnor
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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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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