Psychology Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

12 Psychology quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor’s keen eye for human folly shines in these twelve succinct statements. She uses her characteristic Southern prose to expose the darker corners of thought, delivering bite‑sized wisdom with a touch of irony.

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“To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.”

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“Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.”

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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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“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he…

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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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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 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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“If a writer is any good, what he makes will have its source in a realm much larger than that which his…

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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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“She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head…

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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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“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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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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