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There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.


Flannery O'Connor

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ERIK PEVERNAGIE No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
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NEILS BOHR Many people are so eager to reveal the truth to the world for the sake of the truth, including me. B...
TOBA BETA But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no...
ORSON SCOTT CARD The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.
HERMANN HESSE All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.
PAT BUCKLEY The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all...
MAX BORN Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But w...
SUZY KASSEM There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. On...
MARTIN LUTHER The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same ti...
DAVID BOWIE The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always...
ALEX TIZON Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth...
BOB MARLEY There is no truth. There is only perception.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c...
LEO TOLSTOY The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ...
JAMES FREY The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o...
SUSAN SONTAG All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose.
BEN OAK All minorities sadly look down on one another, but the truth is, there is only one real minority, an...
ENRIQUE VEGA Smartass Disciple: But, you said that it's the truth??
Master of Stupidity: O Yes. That is yest...
TOBA BETA All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.
ANITA B. SULSER Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in o...
HU SHIH Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate.
KATHLEEN NORRIS Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate
KATHLEEN NORRIS Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the reso...
SEAMUS HEANEY It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world...
LINDSEY KELK I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
JOHN KEATS There is no original truth, only original error.
GASTON BACHELARD There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in th...
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ROGER SCRUTON There is no truth to that rumor.
SEN. ROOSEVELT DAVID There is no thing known as bad luck. There is luck, or no luck at all.
JEFFREY FRY Art-speech is the only truth. An artist is usually a damned liar, but his art, if it be art, will te...
D.H. LAWRENCE I believe that ignorance is the root of all evil.
And that no one knows the truth.
MOLLY IVINS I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view.
ALLEN GINSBERG The truth of scientific research, just like the truth behind many equally complex areas of study, is...
ANONYMOUS There are no secrets.' The thing smiled, showing a row of even, childlike teeth. 'None worth keeping...
DAVID HEWSON There is no exception to this rule: "All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of...
FLOYD SKLOOT I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.
RICHARD AVEDON I can't reply in detail but have furnished all details to them. There is no truth in the allegations...
JAGMOHAN DALMIYA There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
ELLIS PETERS There is no Truth in relationships, only Love or the lack of it.
CLANCY SARVIS My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t...
DEYTH BANGER There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect.
KEN STARR I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, a...
JEWELL PARKER RHODES There is no technology to shatter truth or master truth.
APURVA GAGLANI Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers.
KIRAN DESAI I've looked all over for a replacement for Roy Keane but the simple truth is that there isn't one ou...
FERGIE Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is...
GEORGE HERBERT They say that there is "kernel of truth I every stereotype" But fools ignore the truth to gain accep...
TROY J. GAINEY There are certain authors that do not turn students on; it is the truth. Homer happens to be one of ...
WILLIAM SCOTT Yet without Chaos there would be no Creation, and perhaps no Creator. That is the simple truth of al...
MICHAEL MOORCOCK The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference betwee...
LORRAINE BRACCO A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is ‘merely relative,’ is asking yo...
ROGER SCRUTON Truth is a point of view, but authenticity can't be faked.
PETER GUBER Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contr...
FRANCIS S. COLLINS There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest fo...
MARION BARRY What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That...
C. JOYBELL C. The truth is that we are all born to do great things, but only some believe it.
MAHMOOD HASHIMI Every one of us can do something about the truth. You can at least stand for the truth wherever you ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Everything is a story. What is there but stories? Stories are the only truth.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. ...
CHANAKYA Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one def...
W.H. MURRAY There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth.
WARD CHURCHILL If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doin...
JOHN LECARRE Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represe...
ZOROASTER Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Beauty is truth, truth beauty, - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
JOHN KEATS All truth is parallel; All truth is untrue.
ROZZ WILLIAMS But there was only one truth about forever that really mattered, and that was this: it was happening...
SARAH DESSEN There is a truth deep down inside of you that has been waiting for you to discover it, and that trut...
RHONDA BYRNE There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The ...
RAYMOND CHANDLER There is truth in humor, but not humor in truth.
UNKNOWN I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because t...
AIDAN TURNER There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not sta...
BUDDHA In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and t...
CHARLES BAXTER TRUTH."
"Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa...
DAN BROWN I like big doses of grief when I read: Richard Yates, Flannery O'Connor, Kenzabaro Oe, Thomas Be...
BEN MARCUS There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is...
GEORGE MACDONALD The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said. 'It is the deeds that have goodness o...
GREGORY DAVID ROBERTS The investigation of the truth is in one way hard, in another easy. An indication of this is found i...
ARISTOTLE There is no proverb without a grain of truth
RUSSIAN PROVERB There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth wit...
ROBERT H. SCHULLER There is no greatness where simplicity, goodness and truth are absent.
LEO TOLSTOY Beauty is truth, truth beauty, --that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
JOHN KEATS Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know
JOHN KEATS Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.
DAVID LEVITHAN

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ERIN O'CONNOR I have two curiosity cabinets at home filled with finds from jumble sales, markets and my travels. M...
ERIN O'CONNOR I am rubbish at the gym. I prefer to exercise by moving around - it doesn't matter whether I am ...
ERIN O'CONNOR It's not about hiding your imperfections on a shoot; it's about embracing them and being una...
ERIN O'CONNOR I am selective. If I do splash out, it's an investment, and I wear things for years.
ERIN O'CONNOR I want to show that we all have the right to be ourselves, and I certainly don't want to freeze ...
ERIN O'CONNOR When I was 13 or 14, my parents had a bit of a windfall so bought a lovely new kitchen, but I burnt ...
ERIN O'CONNOR I'm utterly androgynous, and I truly love it. It's been part of my identity for so long. I&#...
ERIN O'CONNOR I've enjoyed many camping holidays with my sister and her children, but we're pretty posh ca...
ERIN O'CONNOR Caution is the key to safe cycling. I'm aware that cars are bigger than me, but I feel quite saf...
ERIN O'CONNOR I'm like a tourist when I'm in London.
ERIN O'CONNOR In my work, I'm called to a job at the drop of a hat, so I like a sense of order to my holidays,...
ERIN O'CONNOR Cycling is a great way to learn about your city. I love being outdoors, especially in good weather, ...
ERIN O'CONNOR A girl must have an indefinable magic, real character, a strong sense of self. Her role is to respon...
ERIN O'CONNOR I lead a very busy life and don't have a lot of time, so my skincare needs to be easy and portab...
ERIN O'CONNOR It makes me cross when I hear people say, 'It's so last season.' I always say, 'It&#...
ERIN O'CONNOR I've been on both sides: the victim and the villain. I was the victimised model, and everything ...
ERIN O'CONNOR Winter is my favourite season.
ERIN O'CONNOR My style has been nurtured over time. It's more about knowing what doesn't suit you. I love ...
ERIN O'CONNOR My perfect bag would be practical but also have the stylish element to it; it would be bold and colo...
ERIN O'CONNOR Life is full of surprises but you are exactly where you are supposed to be. Start there.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Life's unpredictable path and length, should be enough to make you want to take a chance.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns ...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficul...
SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR What if one thing resonates with everybody, but it's not the same for anybody?
MARK ALLEN O'CONNOR Breaking, in modern psychology, 'learned helplessness.' This is where you crush an animal's desire t...
REBECCA K. O'CONNOR