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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair of

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. – Flannery OConnor

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Everywhere I go, Im asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they dont stifle enough of them. Theres many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. – Flannery OConnor

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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. – Flannery OConnor

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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody elses. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that theres no truth. – Flannery OConnor

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The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. – Muhammad Iqbal

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I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly. – Bessie Coleman

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I think its really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what youre going to do. – Liev Schreiber

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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. – Rita Mae Brown

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