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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
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.
— Flannery O'Connor
The dead don't bother with particulars.
— Flannery O'Connor
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
— Flannery O'Connor
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
— Flannery O'Connor
A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.
— Flannery O'Connor
You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.
— Flannery O'Connor
Remember what you won't get if you don't mind, her grandfather remarked.
— Flannery O'Connor
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
— Flannery O'Connor
I am the menial, at the beck and squawk of any feathered worthy who wants service.
— Flannery O'Connor
This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.
— Flannery O'Connor
Unadaptability is often a virtue.
— Flannery O'Connor
In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
— Flannery O'Connor
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
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
— Flannery O'Connor
No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist. The devil is the greatest believer and he has his reasons.
— Flannery O'Connor
I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
— Flannery O'Connor
A God you understood would be less than yourself.
— Flannery O'Connor
The main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.
— Flannery O'Connor
Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.
— Flannery O'Connor
He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else even though he was.
— Flannery O'Connor
Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham.
— Flannery O'Connor
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
— Flannery O'Connor
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
— Flannery O'Connor
Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition.
— Flannery O'Connor
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
— Flannery O'Connor
The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.
— Flannery O'Connor
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The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme
— Flannery O'Connor
Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,
— Flannery O'Connor
Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.
— Flannery O'Connor
Mrs. Pritchard could not stand an anticlimax. She required the taste of blood from time to time to keep her equilibrium.
— Flannery O'Connor
To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.
— Flannery O'Connor
