The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. ✨ Flannery O'Co…

Flannery O'Connor
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.65, Macmillan
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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, p.343, Macmillan
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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.110, Macmillan
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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). Collected Works, New York, NY : Library of America : Di … ▶

The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1969). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose, p.65, Macmillan

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