I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Emotion 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 Copy Share Image
If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity. — Flannery O'Connor Animal 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
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. — Flannery O'Connor Ability Copy Share Image
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It's there, even when… — Flannery O'Connor Christian Copy Share Image
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never… — Flannery O'Connor Attention Copy Share Image
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs.… — Flannery O'Connor Abstract Copy Share Image
The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without… — Flannery O'Connor Becoming Copy Share Image
I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it… — Flannery O'Connor Adept Copy Share Image
“He said he had only a few days ago believed in blasphemy as the way to salvation, but that you couldn't even… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will. — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
“I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stay's… — Flannery O'Connor Blood of jesus Copy Share Image
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor Absence Copy Share Image
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor Doctrine Copy Share Image
You get a real person down there and his talking will take care of itself. — Flannery O'Connor Care 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
“Remember what you won't get if you don't mind," her grandfather remarked.” — Flannery O'Connor Memory Copy Share Image
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of… — Flannery O'Connor Assuming Copy Share Image
“If other ages felt less, they saw more, even though they saw with the blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is… — Flannery O'Connor Faith Copy Share Image
...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
