All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction… Always Astonished
- Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of… All
- She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. Looked
- The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there… Absolutely
- You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. Confusing
- What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. Big
- So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence. Competence
- The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity... Anchored
- Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it. Happiness
- I know that the writer does call up the general and maybe the essential through the particular, but this general and essential is still deeply… Answerable
- If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink.… Condition
- The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every… Bailey
- Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. Asked