There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin. — Flannery O'Connor Black Copy Share Image
I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language… — Flannery O'Connor Coming out Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like being pleased with your own work - and this is the best stage - before it is published… — Flannery O'Connor Letter 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 Old lady Copy Share Image
I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential… — Flannery O'Connor Doe Copy Share Image
“The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he… — Flannery O'Connor Modern-writers Copy Share Image
“The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to… — Flannery O'Connor Christianity Copy Share Image
The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the… — Flannery O'Connor Catholic Copy Share Image
Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding — Flannery O'Connor Be prepared Copy Share Image
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are… — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an… — Flannery O'Connor Atheist 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 Humility Copy Share Image
“Parker sat for a long time on the ground in the alley behind the pool hall, examining his soul. He saw it… — Flannery O'Connor Long time Copy Share Image
“No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.” — Flannery O'Connor Spirituality Copy Share Image
“...what they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.” — Flannery O'Connor Intentions Copy Share Image
“If you want to get anywhere in religion, you got to keep it sweet.” — Flannery O'Connor Religion Copy Share Image
“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a… — Flannery O'Connor Death 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
He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had… — Flannery O'Connor Blank 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
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 stays… — Flannery O'Connor Blind Copy Share Image
“His friends told him that nobody was interested in his goddam soul unless it was the priest and he managed to answer… — Flannery O'Connor Army Copy Share Image
