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" The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. "
Flannery O'Connor
Writer
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" Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. "
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" Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. "
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" To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. "
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" The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. "
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" It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. "
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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 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 Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. "
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" I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. "
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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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More
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" I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. "
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" The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. "
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