“...what they have to say about themselves makes me think that there is a lot of ill-directed good in them.” — Flannery O'Connor 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
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. — Flannery O'Connor Devil 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 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
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. — Flannery O'Connor 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
Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is… — Flannery O'Connor 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 Copy Share Image
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Flannery O'Connor, in a note to the editor of "Wise Blood" that pertained to changes he wanted to make, wrote "Perhaps I… — Flannery O'Connor Arrogance Copy Share Image
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought this was what had caused him… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work… — Flannery O'Connor 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 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
“He saw that there was something alive in it, and went near enough to read a sign that said, TWO DEADLY ENEMIES.… — Flannery O'Connor 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
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
“I don’t know how to cure the source-itis except to tell you that I can discover a good many possible sources myself… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“I have got, over the years, a sense of the immense sweep of creation, of the evolutionary process in everything, of how… — Flannery O'Connor Christian faith Copy Share Image
Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was… — Flannery O'Connor Bears Copy Share Image
“The serious writer has always taken the flaw in human nature for his starting point, usually the flaw in an otherwise admirable… — Flannery O'Connor Human nature Copy Share Image
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
We hear a great deal of lamentation these days about writers having all taken themselves to the colleges and universities where they… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“He said when he went to sell a man a flue, he asked first about that man's wife's health and how his… — Flannery O'Connor Computers Copy Share Image
The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. — Flannery O'Connor Despair Copy Share Image
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