“I have one of those food-chopper brains that nothing comes out of the way it went in.” — Flannery O'Connor Brains Copy Share Image
It was not right to believe anything you couldn't see or hold in your hands or test with your teeth. — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one. — Flannery O'Connor Forget Copy Share Image
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. — Flannery O'Connor Devil Copy Share Image
“His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it.” — Flannery O'Connor Beautiful Copy Share Image
I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic. — Flannery O'Connor Advice 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
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. — Flannery O'Connor Doctor Copy Share Image
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the… — Flannery O'Connor Blood Copy Share Image
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he… — Flannery O'Connor Attachment Copy Share Image
“There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not… — Flannery O'Connor Farm Copy Share Image
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think… — Flannery O'Connor Doing Copy Share Image
“Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish eating it nor… — Flannery O'Connor Character Copy Share Image
Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by… — Flannery O'Connor Bible Copy Share Image
Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
In most good stories, it is the character's personality that creates the action of the story. If you start with real personality,… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
“Those who believe that art proceeds from a healthy, and not from a diseased, faculty of the mind will take what he… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from… — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
“From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from… — Flannery O'Connor Ages Copy Share Image
On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think...of qualities which are specifically feminine or masculine. I suppose I divide… — Flannery O'Connor Business Copy Share Image
“He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on… — Flannery O'Connor Fitness Copy Share Image
“[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to… — Flannery O'Connor Catholicism 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
“I must write down that I am to be an artist. Not in the sense of aesthetic frippery but in the sense… — Flannery O'Connor Aesthetic 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
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. — Flannery O'Connor Doe Copy Share Image
“Give me the grace to be impatient for the time when I shall see You face to face and need no stimulus… — Flannery O'Connor Face to face Copy Share Image
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. — Flannery O'Connor Culture Copy Share Image
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor I can Copy Share Image
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. — Flannery O'Connor Bestseller Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Fiction Copy Share Image
“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.” — Flannery O'Connor Dreams Copy Share Image
“The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.” — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. — Flannery O'Connor Drank Copy Share Image
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor Deaf Copy Share Image
Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor Hardest Copy Share Image
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor Distortion 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
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