Children Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

14 Children quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor’s unmistakable Southern Gothic tone filters into fourteen short passages, each a sharp, poetic glimpse at youthful innocence and its shadows.

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Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime.

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Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.

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“Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his life.”

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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

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Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

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Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

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Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy,

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The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his…

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I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am…

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I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not,…

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“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him…

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“The girl had taken the Ph.D. in philosophy and this left Mrs. Hopewell at a complete loss. You could say, “My daughter…

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“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…

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The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists…

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Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

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To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures.

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“He felt his hunger no longer as a pain but as a tide. He felt it rising in himself through time and darkness, rising…

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“There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”

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“Mrs. May winced. She thought the word Jesus should be kept inside the church building like other words inside the bedroom.”

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She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the…

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