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Been Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- 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…
- 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;…
- Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion…
- We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing…
- There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that…
- Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a…
- She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
- She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit…
- There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a…
- When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken.…
- I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes…
More Been Quotes
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- I'm quite sensitive to women. I saw how my sister got treated by boyfriends. I read this thing that said when you… — Orlando Bloom
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Years ago someone wrote [about me]: 'She characterizes Molly Weasley as a mother who is only at home looking after the children.'… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong