Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding — Flannery O'Connor Be prepared Copy Share Image
It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity. — Flannery O'Connor Charity Copy Share Image
Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy, — Flannery O'Connor Child of god Copy Share Image
“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.” — Flannery O'Connor Truth Copy Share Image
“The scientist has the habit of science; the artist, the habit of art.” — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“To his mind, an opportunity to insult a successful ape cam from the hand of Providence.” — Flannery O'Connor Insult Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.” — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. — Flannery O'Connor Experience Copy Share Image
“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.” — Flannery O'Connor Choose Copy Share Image
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. — Flannery O'Connor Competence 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
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. — Flannery O'Connor God Copy Share Image
Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for… — Flannery O'Connor Audience Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for… — Flannery O'Connor Chickens Copy Share Image
“When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully,… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any… — Flannery O'Connor Girl Copy Share Image
“Hazel Motes sat at a forward angel on the green plush train seat, looking one minute at the window as if he… — Flannery O'Connor Fiction 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
At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not,… — Flannery O'Connor Accepting Copy Share Image
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as… — Flannery O'Connor Dark night Copy Share Image
“Listen, lady," he said in a high voice, "if I had of been there I would of known and I wouldn't be… — Flannery O'Connor Grandmother Copy Share Image
But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
“No,” he said. Then he drew breath and said, “You got a nice place here. It’s a nice part of the country.… — Flannery O'Connor Nigger Copy Share Image
One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You… — Flannery O'Connor Abundance 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 can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. — Flannery O'Connor Blessing Copy Share Image
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Character 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
