I preach that there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them there's only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

Flannery O'Connor

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Nature of truth Truth

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Hazel Motes

Author

Flannery O'Connor

Source

Wise Blood

Medium

Novel

Genre

Southern Gothic

Language

English

Time

1952 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Writer

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United States

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Citation

O'Connor, Flannery. Wise Blood. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1952, ch. 10.

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