“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” — Flannery O'Connor Truth Copy Share Image
It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. — Flannery O'Connor Charity Copy Share Image
Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy, — Flannery O'Connor Child of god Copy Share Image
Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him. — Flannery O'Connor Depressed Copy Share Image
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. — Flannery O'Connor Devil Copy Share Image
It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth. — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.” — Flannery O'Connor Beautiful Copy Share Image
I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic. — Flannery O'Connor Advice Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Criticism Copy Share Image
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not,… — Flannery O'Connor Abortion Copy Share Image
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose… — Flannery O'Connor Gift Copy Share Image
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Feelings Copy Share Image
“That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers who would… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
“I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before… — Flannery O'Connor Aquinas Copy Share Image
“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to… — Flannery O'Connor Catholicism Copy Share Image
“I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense… — Flannery O'Connor Aesthetic Copy Share Image
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from… — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
“From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Human nature Copy Share Image
“He said when he went to sell a man a flue, he asked first about that man's wife's health and how his… — Flannery O'Connor Computers Copy Share Image
“I have got, over the years, a sense of the immense sweep of creation, of the evolutionary process in everything, of how… — Flannery O'Connor Christian faith Copy Share Image
Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was… — Flannery O'Connor Bears Copy Share Image
“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to… — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
“Silly that a grocery should depress one—nothing in it but trifling domestic doings—women buying beans—riding children in those grocery go-carts—higgling about an… — Flannery O'Connor Children Copy Share Image
![“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to experience things that I have all along accepted. I suppose the fullest writing comes from what has been accepted and experienced both and that I have just not got that far yet…” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/569/flannery-o-connor-639_catholicism_w-hat-one-has-as-a-born-catholic-is-some_2951481.jpg)
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