Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at… — Flannery O'Connor Bad man 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
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of… — Flannery O'Connor Coins Copy Share Image
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but… — Flannery O'Connor Arches Copy Share Image
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship… — Flannery O'Connor Being true Copy Share Image
“...they were all, if the truth was only known, a little bit off in their heads. What possible reason could a sane… — Flannery O'Connor Truth Copy Share Image
I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that… — Flannery O'Connor Believer Copy Share Image
“Don’t let me ever think, dear God, that I was anything but the instrument for Your story-just like the typewriter was mine.” — Flannery O'Connor Dear god Copy Share Image
“I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before… — Flannery O'Connor Aquinas Copy Share Image
“The world was made for the dead. Think of all the dead there are...There's a million times more dead than living and… — Flannery O'Connor And Copy Share Image
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. — Flannery O'Connor Martyr Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Feelings Copy Share Image
“You might as well go one place as another," he said. "That's all I know.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“When we get our spiritual house in order, we'll be dead. This goes on. You arrive at enough certainty to be able… — Flannery O'Connor Certainty 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 Writing Copy Share Image
You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit… — Flannery O'Connor Attention 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
“I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.” — Flannery O'Connor Around the world Copy Share Image
“Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with… — Flannery O'Connor Believe 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 Copy Share Image
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