Wells Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

13 Wells quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor peers into the well’s darkness, offering 13 stark observations that blend Southern grit with moral intensity.

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Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.

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A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.

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The life you save may very well be your own.

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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

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...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think…

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If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have 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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Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about…

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The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which…

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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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The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a guided opportunity, through the best writing of…

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I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested…

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There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having…

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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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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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