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Flannery OConnor Quotes
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![Listen, friends, said the disciple confidently, [...] I didn’t have a friend in the world. Do you know what it’s like not to have a friend in the world?It ain’t no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn’t looking, the older man said, barely parting his lips Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/2/929/928398/928398.webp "Listen, friends, said the disciple confidently, [...] I didn’t have a friend in the world. Do you know what it’s like not to have a friend in the world?It ain’t no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn’t looking, the older man said, barely parting his lips Picture Quote #1")
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
The fiction writer has to engage in a continual examination of conscience. He has to be aware of the freak in himself (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I’m sure of it (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
My own approach to literary problems is very like the one Dr. Johnson’s blind housekeeper used when she poured tea-she put her finger inside the cup (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you’ll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
The mind serves best when it’s anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
Writing is a good example of self-abandonment. I never completely forget myself except when I am writing and I am never more completely myself than when I am writing (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
Elizabeth Hardwick told me once that all her first drafts sounded as if a chicken had written them. So do mine for the most part (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
... the man in the violent situation reveals those qualities least dispensable in his personality, those qualities which are all he will have to take into eternity with him (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
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, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business. (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn’t be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club. (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
Listen, friends, said the disciple confidently, [...] I didn’t have a friend in the world. Do you know what it’s like not to have a friend in the world?It ain’t no worsen havinum that would put a knife in your back when you wasn’t looking, the older man said, barely parting his lips. (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
I spend three hours a day writing and the rest of my day getting over it (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
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 these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal (Flannery OConnor Quotes)
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