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Say Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of…
- The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it…
- It's always wrong of course to say that you can't do this or you can't do that in fiction. You can do anything you can…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- ...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see…
- I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
- I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
- 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…
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- I would definitely say the Oakland Raiders are the punk rock band of football. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough. — Lance Armstrong
- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong