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
“Woman! do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!” — Flannery O'Connor God Copy Share Image
If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity. — Flannery O'Connor Animal Copy Share Image
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. — Flannery O'Connor Innocence Copy Share Image
When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic. — Flannery O'Connor Dramatic Copy Share Image
“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her… — Flannery O'Connor Good woman Copy Share Image
“The formality that is left in the South now is quite dead and done for of course.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. — Flannery O'Connor Men Copy Share Image
Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“In short, I am amenable to criticism, but only within the sphere of what I am trying to do; I will not… — Flannery O'Connor Amenable Copy Share Image
“She would have to be a saint because that was the occupation that included everything you could know; and yet she knew… — Flannery O'Connor Martyr 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 Copy Share Image
I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Two people can remain "in love"-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites… — Flannery O'Connor Love Copy Share Image
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical.… — Flannery O'Connor Birth Copy Share Image
“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good… — Flannery O'Connor Fun 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
“[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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
“The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still… — Flannery O'Connor Faith 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
“Jesus thrown everything off balance. It was the same case with Him as with me except He hadn't committed any crime and… — Flannery O'Connor Long ago Copy Share Image
St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Leave!’ Hazel Motes cried. ‘Go ahead and leave! The truth don’t matter to you. Listen,’ he said, pointing his finger at the… — Flannery O'Connor Atheism Copy Share Image
“Silly that a grocery should depress one—nothing in it but trifling domestic doings—women buying beans—riding children in those grocery go-carts—higgling about an… — Flannery O'Connor Children 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
![“People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won’t survive the ordeal.” quote by Flannery O'Connor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/225/flannery-o-connor-639_books_people-without-hope-do-not-write-novels_903687.png)
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