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Good Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
- I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people…
- It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
- Nobody with a good car needs to be justified.
- 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…
- 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…
- Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are
- 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…
- 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…
- She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
- 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…
- 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…
- Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning…
- Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.
- She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.
- 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…
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