The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. — Flannery O'Connor Despair Copy Share Image
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. — Flannery O'Connor Doctor Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus… — Flannery O'Connor Face to face Copy Share Image
“I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.” — Flannery O'Connor Around the world Copy Share Image
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.” — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Emotion Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You asked him a question in… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar… — Flannery O'Connor Blessed sacrament Copy Share Image
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one… — Flannery O'Connor Blessing Copy Share Image
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES.… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide… — Flannery O'Connor Business Copy Share Image
Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything… — Flannery O'Connor Balance Copy Share Image
“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like… — Flannery O'Connor Disciple Copy Share Image
“He saw that for the rest of his days, frail, racked, but enduring, he would live in the face of a purifying… — Flannery O'Connor Holy ghost Copy Share Image
The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.… — Flannery O'Connor Birth 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… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still… — Flannery O'Connor Faith Copy Share Image
“The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he managed to answer… — Flannery O'Connor Army Copy Share Image
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Jesus thrown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me except He hadn't committed any crime and… — Flannery O'Connor Long ago Copy Share Image
“Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the… — Flannery O'Connor Atheism Copy Share Image
![“Listen, friends," said the disciple confidently, " [...] I didn't have a friend in the world. Do you know what it's like not to have a friend in the world?" "It ain't no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn't looking," the older man said, barely parting his lips.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b1d/flannery-o-connor-639_disciple_listen-friends-said-the-disciple-confide_2412204.jpg)
