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Would Be Quotes by Flannery O'Connor
- I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.
- Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that…
- A God you understood would be less than yourself.
- 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…
- If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or…
- I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.…
- 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…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse… — Mikhail Bakunin
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius
- I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart attack. The… — Alan Ball
- The effect of prizes on one's career - if that is what to call it - is considerable, since they give one… — John Banville
- If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be… — Brigitte Bardot
- I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid… — Anthony Bourdain
- The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk.… — Swami Vivekananda