“Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,” — Flannery O'Connor Block Copy Share Image
Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul. — Flannery O'Connor Dark Copy Share Image
She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. — Flannery O'Connor Being true Copy Share Image
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. — Flannery O'Connor Bounds Copy Share Image
If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you… — Flannery O'Connor Generation Copy Share Image
I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way… — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
“A perception is not a story, and no amount of sensitivity can make a story-writer out of you if you just plain… — Flannery O'Connor Empathy Copy Share Image
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that… — Flannery O'Connor Comes and goes Copy Share Image
When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too… — Flannery O'Connor Chicken 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
“The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“His black hat sat on his head with a careful, placed expression and his face had a fragile look as if it… — Flannery O'Connor Mind Copy Share Image
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will… — Flannery O'Connor Afterlife 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
There is a certain embarrassment about being a storyteller in these times when stories are considered not quite as satisfying as statements… — Flannery O'Connor Certain Copy Share Image
Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to… — Flannery O'Connor Dear Copy Share Image
Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will… — Flannery O'Connor Able Copy Share Image
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image… — Flannery O'Connor Backwoods Copy Share Image
“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth… — Flannery O'Connor Right now Copy Share Image
The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of… — Flannery O'Connor All time Copy Share Image
“I am largely worried about wingless chickens. I feel this is the time for me to fulfill myself by stepping in and… — Flannery O'Connor Chicken Copy Share Image
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Copy Share Image
“No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.” — Flannery O'Connor Atheist Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has lived to the age of eighteen has enough stories to last a lifetime.” — Flannery O'Connor Lifetime Copy Share Image
“The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.” — Flannery O'Connor Hope Copy Share Image
In my travels I am often asked if college stifles young writers. In my opinion, it doesn't stifle them enough. — Flannery O'Connor College Copy Share Image
“You might as well go one place as another," he said. "That's all I know.” — Flannery O'Connor Know 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 Blind Copy Share Image
If there is no possibility for change in a character, we have no interest in him. — Flannery O'Connor Change Copy Share Image
I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those who want to believe. — Flannery O'Connor Believe Copy Share Image
“Yet she could see by their shocked and altered faces that even their virtues were being burned away.” — Flannery O'Connor Burned Copy Share Image
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself. — Flannery O'Connor Conscience 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
I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. — Flannery O'Connor Deceived Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Blind Copy Share Image
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. — Flannery O'Connor Men Copy Share Image
“The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.” — Flannery O'Connor Formality Copy Share Image
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