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Quote by Flannery OConnor
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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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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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. – Arnold Bennett

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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. – Eric Hoffer

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Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character youre playing through your own experience – so were all different. – Ian Mckellen

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