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Any Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it…
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to…
- There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting…
- I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident…
- I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—​for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic…
- A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say…
- I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
- 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…
- A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say…
- He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my…
- The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
- 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…
- A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will…
- St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour…
- 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 long looks at…
- Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of…
- She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
- 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…
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- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
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- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
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