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You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

Flannery O'Connor
Funny, Truth, Humorous

The only way to the truth is through blasphemy.

Flannery O'Connor
Truth, Way, Truth Is
Flannery O'Connor (2015). “Wise Blood”, p.82, Faber & Faber

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.

Flannery O'Connor
Truth, Atheism, Literature
1952 HazelMotes. Wise Blood, ch.10.

The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

Flannery O'Connor
Truth, Eye, Novelists
Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.177, Macmillan

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