Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to… — Flannery O'Connor Dark Copy Share Image
“Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been… — Flannery O'Connor Freedom Copy Share Image
I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not,… — Flannery O'Connor Abortion Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.… — Flannery O'Connor Criticism Copy Share Image
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose… — Flannery O'Connor Gift Copy Share Image
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love… — Flannery O'Connor Endure Copy Share Image
The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the… — Flannery O'Connor All time Copy Share Image
“The straightforward manner is seldom equal to the complications of the good subject. There may never be anything new to say, but… — Flannery O'Connor Saying Copy Share Image
“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a… — Flannery O'Connor Death Copy Share Image
“Two people can remain 'in love'—a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism—only if their common desire for each other unites in… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought about by Christ's… — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
“My mamma and I have interesting literary discussions like the following which took place over some Modern Library books that I had… — Flannery O'Connor Idiot Copy Share Image
“She could not make up her mind what would be inside his head and what out. She thought of her own head… — Flannery O'Connor Heart Copy Share Image
There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and… — Flannery O'Connor Average Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a… — Flannery O'Connor Heart Copy Share Image
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly… — Flannery O'Connor Eye Copy Share Image
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive,… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have… — Flannery O'Connor Blood Copy Share Image
It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't… — Flannery O'Connor Adversaries Copy Share Image
“When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've… — Flannery O'Connor Grateful Copy Share Image
Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their… — Flannery O'Connor Creative Copy Share Image
Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly… — Flannery O'Connor Admirer Copy Share Image
“I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality… — Flannery O'Connor Escape from reality Copy Share Image
“Thomas had inherited his father’s reason without his ruthlessness and his mother’s love of good without her tendency to pursue it. His… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
“[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in… — Flannery O'Connor Reading Trash Copy Share Image
All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean… — Flannery O'Connor Difficult Copy Share Image
“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far… — Flannery O'Connor Writer Copy Share Image
“In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not… — Flannery O'Connor Amenable Copy Share Image
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew… — Flannery O'Connor Martyr Copy Share Image
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual… — Flannery O'Connor Certain Copy Share Image
“Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our… — Flannery O'Connor Religion Copy Share Image
“Dear God please give me some place, no matter how small, but let me know it and keep it. If I am… — Flannery O'Connor Dear god Copy Share Image
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“Julian thought he could have stood his lot better if she had been selfish, if she had been an old hag who… — Flannery O'Connor Julian Thought Copy Share Image
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