"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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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.“
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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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"You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you."
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"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
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"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
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"Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity."
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