“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”

—  Flannery O’Connor

Source: Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

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American novelist, short story writer 1925–1964

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