Flannery O'Connor - Truth Quotes

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

Flannery O'Connor

[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility...

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I certainly am glad you like the stories because now I feel it's not bad that I like them so much. The truth is I like them better than anybody and I read them over and over and laugh and laugh, then get embarrassed when I remember I was the one wrote them.

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I preach that 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.

Flannery O'Connor

It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

Flannery O'Connor