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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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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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Truth
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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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Age
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We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that. – Bernard Malamud, The Natural

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Life is trying things to see if they work. – Ray Bradbury

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As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you dont adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary. – Jeffrey Kluger

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To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists. – Arnold Bennett

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Ive been allowed to grow over the past twenty years. Ive managed to avoid being trapped in one moment of my career and for that, Im very thankful. – Giovanni Ribisi

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When your dreams turn to dust, vacuum. – Author Unknown

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