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One 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…
- One of the awful things about writing when you are a Christian is that for you the ultimate reality is the Incarnation, the present reality…
- 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…
- It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells…
- In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where…
- 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
- 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…
- I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
- I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
- He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my…
- The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all…
- Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize…
- 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 have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take…
- She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth…
- You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it…
- 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,…
- There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of…
- ...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
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- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster