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Way Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of…
- I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people…
- The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it…
- Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to…
- A story is a way to say something that can't be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say…
- 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…
- A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say…
- I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by…
- The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.
- I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear.
- 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…
- When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another,…
- There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.
- I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
- Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
- People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them. They don’t take long looks at…
- 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…
- [To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The…
More Way Quotes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. — William Shakespeare
- If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of… — Frederick Lenz
- You can fake a smile just to hide the pain but there's no way you can fake the tears. — Nishan Panwar
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- A little praise goes a great ways. — Ralph Waldo Emerson