Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson's blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her… — Flannery O'Connor Approach Copy Share Image
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no… — Flannery O'Connor Get away Copy Share Image
The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses.… — Flannery O'Connor Bible 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
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) — Flannery O'Connor August Copy Share Image
Being a Georgia author is a rather specious dignity, on the same order as, for the pig, being a Talmadge ham. — Flannery O'Connor Books 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
“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any… — Flannery O'Connor Human nature Copy Share Image
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. — Flannery O'Connor Experience Copy Share Image
“Do you think, Mr. Motes,” she said hoarsely, “that when you’re dead, you’re blind?” “I hope so,” he said after a minute.… — Flannery O'Connor Ur Eyes Copy Share Image
Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. — Flannery O'Connor Church 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
If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you. — Flannery O'Connor Down and Copy Share Image
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose… — Flannery O'Connor Kind Copy Share Image
“Meeks was telling him about the value of work. He said that it had been his personal experience that if you wanted… — Flannery O'Connor Happiness Copy Share Image
“[Writing about her address to a ladies club]: The heart of my message to them was that they would all fry in… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Did you see the picture of Roy Rogers's horse attending a church service in Pasadena? I forgot whether his name was Tex… — Flannery O'Connor Church service Copy Share Image
“The grandmother decided that she would not mention that the house was in Tennessee.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
