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Flannery O'Connor has 212 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art,…
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The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
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You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
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I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way…
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I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing…
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Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just…
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The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through…
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I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or…
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The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself.
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I have also led you astray by talking of technique as if it were something that could be separated from the rest…
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Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
— Benjamin Banneker
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest…
— Aldous Huxley
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Bad manners make a journalist.
— Oscar Wilde
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You can get through life with bad manners, but it's easier with good manners.
— Lillian Gish
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The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place…
— Socrates
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The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes from. It's…
— Lorrie Moore
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There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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There is no nobility with bad manners.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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In England it is bad manners to be clever, to assert something confidently. It may be your own personal view that two…
— George Mikes
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As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a…
— Audrey Hepburn
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