Mystery Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

12 Mystery quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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O'Connor’s Southern grit meets the uncanny in this short set. Though only a dozen entries, they still echo her sharp wit and the unsettling twists that make her work unforgettable.

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... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life.

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Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

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He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love…

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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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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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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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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the…

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A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose…

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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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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be…

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There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You…

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In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do…

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

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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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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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One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present…

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“Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he might want…

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