You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own. — Flannery O'Connor Christ Copy Share Image
I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. — Flannery O'Connor Discipline Copy Share Image
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we… — Flannery O'Connor Age Copy Share Image
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor 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
She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be… — Flannery O'Connor Doctor Copy Share Image
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. — Flannery O'Connor Anger Copy Share Image
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. — Flannery O'Connor Catholic Copy Share Image
“The novel is a more diffused form and more suited to those who like to linger along the way; it also requires… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their… — Flannery O'Connor Creative Copy Share Image
“When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've… — Flannery O'Connor Grateful Copy Share Image
... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Turpin felt entirely hollow except for her heart which swung from side to side as if it were agitated in a… — Flannery O'Connor Heart Copy Share Image
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times… — Flannery O'Connor Book Copy Share Image
“Virtue must be the only vigorous thing in our lives. Sin is large and stale. You can never finish eating it nor… — Flannery O'Connor Character 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 Copy Share Image
People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take… — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“He said he had only a few days ago believed in blasphemy as the way to salvation, but that you couldn't even… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory… — Flannery O'Connor Action Copy Share Image
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than… — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“Listen here, Mr. Shiftlet," she said, sliding forward in her chair, "you'd be getting a permanent house and a deep well and… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. — Flannery O'Connor Silver Copy Share Image
“I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. — Flannery O'Connor People Copy Share Image
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts. — Flannery O'Connor Birth Copy Share Image
the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life. — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“How would he know if time was going backwards or forwards or if he was going with it?” — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me. — Flannery O'Connor Burden Copy Share Image
Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. — Flannery O'Connor Belief Copy Share Image
“Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?” — Flannery O'Connor Books Copy Share Image
“Sin is a great thing as long as it's recognized. It leads a good many people to God who wouldn't get there… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. — Flannery O'Connor Business Copy Share Image
Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. — Flannery O'Connor Georgia Copy Share Image
The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. — Flannery O'Connor Ashamed Copy Share Image
Anyone who survives a southern childhood has enough material to last a lifetime. — Flannery O'Connor Childhood Copy Share Image
Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes. — Flannery O'Connor Children Copy Share Image
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. — Flannery O'Connor Acceptance Copy Share Image
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