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Southern Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- 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…
- Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion…
- 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…
- It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.
- Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it…
- 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…
- Grace changes us and change is painful".
More Southern Quotes
- Most of the southern hemisphere is unexplored. We had more exploration ships down there during Captain Cook's time than now. It's amazing. — Robert Ballard
- In Los Angeles all the loose objects in the country were collected, as if America had been tilted and everything that wasn't… — Saul Bellow
- I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France. — Yogi Berra
- I'd like to be able to use Storm's powers for good, like have it rain more in Southern California. We could do… — Halle Berry
- In a completely integrated unit where you'd have white soldiers, particularly from southern states, serving under black noncommissioned officers or officers... I… — Omar N. Bradley
- Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We… — Bear Bryant
- It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world to help… — James Buchan
- Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right… — Tony Campolo