Distortion Quote by Flannery O'Connor Download Open image “The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.” — Flannery O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Distortion Truth Truth is Used
I've never known, at least a modern historical instance, where the truth wasn't superior to distortion in every way. — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I don't understand the concept of the truth because the definition has been distorted. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
The need for truth is not constant; no more than is the need for repose. An idea which is a distortion may have a… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
You imagine the carefully pruned, shaped thing that is presented to you is truth. That is just what it isn't. The truth is improbable,… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
When you deliberately distort and selectively present the truth, you lie. — Charlie Kirk Copy Share Image
The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Truth travels slowly and gets weaker as it goes. Suitable lies are strong and run faster. — Ariana Franklin Copy Share Image
It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of distorted thinking must be… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Lies and distortions can be spread, via the Internet, in an inexpensive way, and the effects are astounding. — Tony Campolo Copy Share Image
The truth is an arbitrary, shifting, culturally relative, and historically molded phenomenon. — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Wait here, wait here!" he cried and jumped up and began to run for help toward a cluster of lights he saw in the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself for Wise… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,… — Umair Haque Copy Share Image
I looked around at what my colleagues were doing, and asked myself, 'What relationship has it with what's going on?' I found there was… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't… — Jeff Beck Copy Share Image
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact that it… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If you ignore somebody's record and only focus on something that happened 25 years ago when all they were doing even then was trying… — Keith Ellison Copy Share Image
I'm not asking a poem to carry a lot of rocks in its pockets. Just being an ordinary observer and liver and feeler and… — Sharon Olds Copy Share Image
I get nostalgic for things that didn't really exist. I might have a cassette from the first time a Melle Mel track, say, got… — Rob Brown Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition.… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The Silvertop and the Goldtop both had subtlety where it was needed but lots of definition as well. I liked the different voicings of… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication" (a preposterous… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
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