Mind Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

15 Mind quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor’s fifteen observations on the mind are laced with her trademark irony and moral acuity. The brevity of each line belies a powerful, often unsettling, insight into human consciousness.

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He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had…

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“His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.”

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“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it…

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The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without…

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Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to…

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The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the…

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But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I…

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Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the…

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The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was…

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The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the…

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Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by…

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He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as…

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Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was…

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He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be…

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“The lights drifted farther away the faster he ran and his feet moved numbly as if they carried him nowhere. The tide…

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“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.”

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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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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless…

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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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I feel that discussing story-writing in terms of plot, character, and theme is like trying to describe the expression on a face by saying…

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