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Me Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- Every morning between 9 and 12 I go to my room and sit before a piece of paper. Many times, I just sit for three…
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to…
- There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting…
- There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in…
- Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image…
- But learned people can analyze for me why I fear hell and their implication is that there is no hell. But I believe in hell.…
- I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—​for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic…
- 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…
- If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or…
- I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.…
- Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
- 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…
- Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited…
- 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…
- For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction…
- Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of…
- Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- 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
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto