May Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

14 May quotes by Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor’s voice cuts through May’s softness with fourteen incisive lines. The brief collection delivers her characteristic dark humor and moral clarity, perfect for a quick literary jolt.

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The life you save may very well be your own.

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I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship…

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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,…

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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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When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one…

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It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you…

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Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for…

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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing…

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Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.…

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[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of…

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There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and…

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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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I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us…

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St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware…

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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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