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From Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,…
- 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.…
- 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;…
- There are two qualities that make fiction. One is the sense of mystery and the other is the sense of manners. You get the manners…
- Once the process [of conversion] is begun and continues...you are continually turning inward toward God and away from your own egocentricity...you have to see this…
- I am no disbeliever in spiritual purpose and no vague believer. I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the…
- The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
- Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you…
- Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply…
- I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by…
- Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
- He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the…
- I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me…
- I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful…
- ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It…
- In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
- 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…
- A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
- Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
- Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and…
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