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Kind Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- 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…
- 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…
- I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that…
- Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because…
- The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
- The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
- When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another,…
- 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…
- People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at…
- Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of…
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