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All Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest of the story.…
- When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call…
- Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
- The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery;…
- The type of mind that can understand good fiction is not necessarily the educated mind, but it is at all times the kind of mind…
- I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent…
- I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as…
- But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.…
- I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that…
- All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of…
- Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because…
- I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
- The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is…
- The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all…
- I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take…
- All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
- Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
- Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
- In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
- That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," and he drove off with a look of…
- [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The…
- 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…
- 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…
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- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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