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Other Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- Faith has to take in all the other possibilities it can.
- 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…
- I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as…
- 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…
- You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
- I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
- Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The…
- The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle