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Texture 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…
- 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…
More Texture Quotes
- One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American… — Henry James
- I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is… — Helen Keller
- A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt
- We live and breathe words. .... It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could… — Cassandra Clare
- The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present. — Paul Scott
- An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to… — Padma Lakshmi
- Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a… — John Updike
- A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that… — Karen Thompson Walker