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Very Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel,…
- I believe the teacher's work is largely negative, that it is largely a matter of saying, "This doesn't work because ..." or "This does work…
- 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,…
- In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where…
- All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of…
- 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…
- Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply…
- Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for…
- When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.
- Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited…
- 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 working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.
- He knew that he was the stuff of which fanatics and madmen are made and that he had turned his destiny as if with his…
- The life you save may very well be your own.
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