"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
-Flannery O'Connor
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"At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.“
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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
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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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"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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