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Some Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
- I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident…
- 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…
- She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.
- 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…
- There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what…
- 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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- Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- The next time someone gets in my face to fight, I'll show them pictures on my phone of an ant I once… — Nikhil Saluja
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never… — Lee Atwater