Doe Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

14 Doe quotes by Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor’s distinct Southern Gothic flair meets Doe in a compact set of fourteen passages. The brevity of the collection still packs her signature dark humor and moral sharpness.

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...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.

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Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.

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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

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It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean…

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I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential…

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Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just…

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Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has…

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Harcourt sent my book to Evelyn Waugh and his comment was: “If this is really the unaided work of a young lady,…

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I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it…

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Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will…

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When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of…

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason…

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I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or…

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