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Only Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- 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…
- 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…
- 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'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent…
- 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…
- A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say…
- 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…
- Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo…
- When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually…
- Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
- Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for…
- People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
- Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.
- 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…
- The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his…
- ...the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed. It…
- [Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.…
- I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I…
- 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…
- Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If…
- 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…
- The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. She wanted to visit some of her connections in east Tennessee and she was seizing at every…
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