The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ✨ Fl…

Flannery O'Connor
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.100, Macmillan
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