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Flannery O'Connor quotes: Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation. Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there's nothing to see. It's a kind of salvation.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The dead don't bother with particulars. The dead don't bother with particulars.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it. Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world. I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course. The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him. If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: He kept on digging but the grave did not get any deeper. "The dead are poor," he said in the voice of the stranger. You can't be any poorer than He kept on digging but the grave did not get any deeper. "The dead are poor," he said in the voice of the stranger. You can't be any poorer than dead.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited. Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish easting it nor ever digest it. It has to be vomited.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Unadaptability is often a virtue. Unadaptability is often a virtue.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle. Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: In yourself right now is all the place you've got. In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd. You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine. Don't let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God! Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!
Flannery O'Connor quotes: She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: A God you understood would be less than yourself. A God you understood would be less than yourself.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: June Star said her hair was naturally curly. June Star said her hair was naturally curly.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock. He had measured five feet four inches of pure gamecock.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Conviction without experience makes for harshness. Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup. My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: In the name of social order, liberal thought, and sometimes even Christianity, the novelist is asked to be the handmaid of his age. In the name of social order, liberal thought, and sometimes even Christianity, the novelist is asked to be the handmaid of his age.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: highway after the boy. highway after the boy.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I am not a warthog from hell. I am not a warthog from hell.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it? How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?
Flannery O'Connor quotes: People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle. A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people's sufferings and not your own. You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people's sufferings and not your own.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it. I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission
Flannery O'Connor quotes: It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth. It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The meaning of the story is the story. The meaning of the story is the story.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust. The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes. It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.(August 9, 1955) The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.
(August 9, 1955)
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. Free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility. The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College. I am going to be the World Authority on Peafowl, and I hope to be offered a chair some day at the Chicken College.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Nothing is like it used to be, lady," he said. "The world is almost rotten. Nothing is like it used to be, lady," he said. "The world is almost rotten.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself. You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one. If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you. If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend? Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. I came from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak. The houses were squat and almost identical and each one had a square of grass in front of it like a dog gripping a stolen steak.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment. The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it
Flannery O'Connor quotes: There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing. Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I sure am sick of the Civil War. I sure am sick of the Civil War.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly. He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back. The thing you do with a boy it is to show him all the to show. Don't hold nothing back.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood, Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition. Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence. To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done. The only way, I think, to learn to write short stories is to write them, and then try to discover what you have done.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity ... The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity ...
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted. I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus than that to adore You. Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus than that to adore You.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art. The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy, Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy,
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. The novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church. It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can. Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I write to discover what I know. I write to discover what I know.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord. We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing to the Lord.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live. You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them. The woods are full of regional writers, and it is the great horror of every serious Southern writer that he will become one of them.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: Kindness and patience were always called for ... Kindness and patience were always called for ...
Flannery O'Connor quotes: There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy. There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic. I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
Flannery O'Connor quotes: When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

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