“I have one of those food-chopper brains that nothing comes out of the way it went in.” — Flannery O'Connor Brains Copy Share Image
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. — Flannery O'Connor Charity 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
... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture. — Flannery O'Connor Bounds 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 Copy Share Image
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor Doctrine Copy Share Image
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted… — Flannery O'Connor Feelings Copy Share Image
“I don’t have a lot of time. I can give a poem a couple of lines, a short story a paragraph, and… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others… — Flannery O'Connor Emotion Copy Share Image
“...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You asked him a question in… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar… — Flannery O'Connor Blessed sacrament Copy Share Image
I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one… — Flannery O'Connor Blessing Copy Share Image
There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,… — Flannery O'Connor Art 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
“She had managed after he died to get the two of them through college and beyond; but she had observed that the… — Flannery O'Connor Eighth grade Copy Share Image
“He had never thought himself a great sinner before but he saw now that his true depravity had been hidden from him… — Flannery O'Connor 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 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 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 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
Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning. — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity - what you work the hardest on is usually the worst. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor Distortion Copy Share Image
If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For the fiction writer himself the whole story is the meaning, because it is an experience, not an abstraction.” — Flannery O'Connor Fiction Copy Share Image
“What is needed is the vision to go with it, and you do not get this from a writing class.” — Flannery O'Connor Dreams Copy Share Image
I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. — Flannery O'Connor Culture Copy Share Image
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees. — Flannery O'Connor Art Copy Share Image
“The boy knew that escaping school was the surest sign of his election.” — Flannery O'Connor Education Copy Share Image
“You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. — Flannery O'Connor God Copy Share Image
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about… — Flannery O'Connor Character Copy Share Image
