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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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The politician is an acrobat. He keeps his balance by saying the opposite of what he does.
— Maurice Barres
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Does the tounge hanging out help his balance?
— Roddy Piper
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Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
— Pope John Paul II
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been…
— Henry L. Stimson
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There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single…
— Carl Jung
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He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he…
— Swami Vivekananda
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In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
— Maxwell Maltz
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He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The worth of a man is according to his courage, his truthfulness is according to his balance of temper, his valour is…
— Hazrat Ali (as)
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