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Use Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others,…
- When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call…
- I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something,…
- We are not judged by what we are basically. We are judged by how hard we use what we have been given. Success means nothing…
- 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…
- The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
- When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it;…
- I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
- In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
- A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will…
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- I realize my mistake when I lost you in the crowd. I felt the pain n loneliness when I lost you. U… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Water uses itself to go beyond whatever it needs to go beyond. — Frederick Lenz
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use. — Francis Bacon