Flannery O'Connor
Related FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR FLANNERY O'CONNOR Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy. F. MULDER I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, a... JEWELL PARKER RHODES ALEX TIZON MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY JOHNNY DEPP NEILS BOHR MAYA ANGELOU A. R. RAHMAN TOBA BETA BRIAN ENO HERMANN HESSE I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believ... JONATHAN JACKSON MARTIN LUTHER ERIK PEVERNAGIE LADY GAGA I think it's like everything else; one shouldn't dig too deeply. It's silly to say that ... ALAN PRICE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and i... ABBEY LINCOLN I don't claim that our TV comedies are highbrow in anyway, but I think there's a basis to th... ADRIAN EDMONDSON SUZY KASSEM ORSON SCOTT CARD DIETRICH BONHOEFFER PAT BUCKLEY I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because t... AIDAN TURNER The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility ... WHITNEY YOUNG DAVID BOWIE ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN The belief that there is only one truth, and that oneself is in possession of it, is the root of all... MAX BORN FRANK OCEAN WAYNE DYER SUSAN SONTAG JIM LEHRER JOHN KEATS I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of tru... BRIAN ALDISS JOHN MCAFEE The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere,... EDGAR RAMIREZ ROBERT H. SCHULLER ELLEN DEGENERES LEO TOLSTOY In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader. A. E. VAN VOGT There is no excuse for perjury - never, never, never. There is truth, and the truth demands respect. KEN STARR ALLEN GINSBERG There are many kinds of truth: societal truths, religious truths, fundamental truths, scientific tru... DEBASISH MRIDHA M.D. CASSANDRA CLARE I think that all stereotypes sort of begin with truth. I think that the only problem is if that'... SAMIRA WILEY I was vaguely aware that same of those around me thought that this pairing of explorations was contr... FRANCIS S. COLLINS GASTON BACHELARD There is no truth to that rumor. SEN. ROOSEVELT DAVID Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in o... HU SHIH KATHLEEN NORRIS KATHLEEN NORRIS JAMES FREY There is no technology to shatter truth or master truth. APURVA GAGLANI PATTY JENKINS They say that there is "kernel of truth I every stereotype" But fools ignore the truth to gain accep... TROY J. GAINEY ALAN DERSHOWITZ VICTOR BORGE HENRY DAVID THOREAU ANNE LAMOTT I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client ... JUDY SMITH The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is... NATALIE JEREMIJENKO SEAMUS HEANEY BOB MARLEY The truth is, I think country music... there's a lot of great people, and just being raised the ... LEE BRICE CRAIG GROESCHEL C. JOYBELL C. SUNDAY ADELAJA There is no truth on this island of yours. Rather, there are as many truths as there are stars in th... JULIET MARILLIER JOHN MALKOVICH ALICE CARY JACK WHITE KENDRICK LAMAR ROBERT KIYOSAKI Hiding in all the thorns, there is a yellow rose. BEN OAK All minorities sadly look down on one another, but the truth is, there is only one real minority, an... ENRIQUE VEGA One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Electi... CAL THOMAS The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses ... STEVE WYNN Stereotypes exist because there's always some truth to stereotypes. Not always, but often. MAZ JOBRANI UNKNOWN AVA DUVERNAY I've learned that, in many cases, people say, 'I want ground truth,' and they don't ... JOHN F. KELLY ALBERT BROOKS The truth is, there are so many terrific places in New York because it's the greatest city in th... PAUL RUDD My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of... KADEE STRICKLAND LEO TOLSTOY KATHY ACKER What you perceive, your observations, feelings, interpretations, are all your truth. Your truth is i... LINDA ELLINOR It is an undisputed truth of the modern age that there are now only two kinds of people in the world... LINDSEY KELK The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian. B. H. LIDDELL HART When you manipulate the truth, it is no long the truth. There is no such thing as a half truth or an... BOBBY W. MILLER There is no consensus, there is no homogeneity, there is no truth. WARD CHURCHILL PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. LOUIS FARRAKHAN There are two kinds of truth. There are real truths, and there are made up truths. [On his arrest fo... MARION BARRY DAVID MARANISS It's much better to write a book and stick to the research - that's history. In cinema, emot... PAWEL PAWLIKOWSKI
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bittern... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old la... FLANNERY O'CONNOR It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes abo... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. FLANNERY O'CONNOR I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His pro... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they d... FLANNERY O'CONNOR It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. FLANNERY O'CONNOR All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, b... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. FLANNERY O'CONNOR When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. FLANNERY O'CONNOR I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Conviction without experience makes for harshness. FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. FLANNERY O'CONNOR The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode. 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 ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. FLANNERY O'CONNOR When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domest... FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go, I'm asked if the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Author: A fool, who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on torment... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't s... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. 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 ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We?re from Pennsylvania. I?m not even sure they know where they?re at. PAT FLANNERY My kids feel vindicated. Losing the dual meet to Valley was rough. They weren't too good of sports a... DAN FLANNERY That's what Blair did great, he was just a great entertainer. You'd watch him and escape from whatev... MICHAEL FLANNERY The difficulty of all this, FLANNERY O'CONNOR There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, a... FLANNERY O'CONNOR To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bittern... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for mann... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I told the team they can either embrace the rankings or get cocky. I told them they haven?t been (co... PAT FLANNERY I don't mean to be a tyrant. A couple threes here and there, and you want to go and slop it up. That... PAT FLANNERY These awards are not single season achievement awards, but rather reward coaches for a cumulative ca... TIM FLANNERY We almost pulled it out. Only .31-hundredths of a second is keeping us from talking about a tie righ... DAN FLANNERY (The players) may not be giddy. But I?m still giddy. PAT FLANNERY When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville FLANNERY O'CONNOR I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. FLANNERY O'CONNOR He spent nearly three quarters of it already and it hasn't moved his numbers in the polls. We have e... BRYAN FLANNERY You knew they were going to hit some deep shots, and we just had to keep grinding and grinding. I th... PAT FLANNERY I don?t see him playing this year. He?s really not getting a whole lot better. There?s been nothing ... PAT FLANNERY This is the way it?s going to be every game. I told the guys to embrace it, not fight it, then go ou... PAT FLANNERY Those kids know what to do and to not play to the crowd. He knows the rules. He needs to be smart en... PAT FLANNERY The last two games, Charles has been our rock. He was a big key. PAT FLANNERY We just had to keep grinding and grinding. PAT FLANNERY With 10 minutes to go, we felt like we had the game. But we learned what that kind of speed is. You ... PAT FLANNERY They're everything they are built up to be. The biggest compliment that I can pay is they play so ha... PAT FLANNERY I haven?t had any questions about the kids and where they?re taking shots. I get excited when we?re ... PAT FLANNERY I thought the tone was set at 1:19 when Knight drove the ball and they called a foul on Abe. The clo... PAT FLANNERY That one issue is the only issue. We're delivering a failed product to the university level. BRYAN FLANNERY Our system has been ruled unconstitutional four times and no one has offered anything to fix those p... BRYAN FLANNERY Those three freshmen have a lot of big-meet experience, and that's going to pay off for them. They'r... DAN FLANNERY What goes around comes around in this sport, I guess. DAN FLANNERY A lot of guys had amazing swims to keep us in the meet. DAN FLANNERY This has always been a great rivalry. We lost this one, but the guys will wake up tomorrow and the s... DAN FLANNERY We have a young team, and our guys faced some adversity early in the meet but turned things around a... DAN FLANNERY She was a voodoo queen. She used to tell people she practiced voodoo. LEO FLANNERY What I don't understand is Fort Pierce is struggling to be a better city, and six blocks away from d... LEO FLANNERY Northern runs a similar offense to what we ran in high school. I am really looking forward to it and... MARSHALL FLANNERY We could just never put it all together until this year. It is awesome to be able to end your high s... MARSHALL FLANNERY The way we started out this year (0-4), I just never thought this was going to happen. It didn't see... 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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s, but behind all of them, the... 
There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that the... 
The thing about stereotypes as we all know, there is often truth in them, but it's almost always... 
In whatever adulation you get, there's truth and there's not truth. And wherever they dog yo... 
There's no truth anymore. 
There are two kinds of truth, small truth and great truth. You can recognize a small truth because i... 
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. 
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth... 
Many people are so eager to reveal the truth to the world for the sake of the truth, including me. B... 
I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that eve... 
The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth. 
There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. On... 
When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ... 
What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there'... 
There is no truth. There is only perception. 
Just like freedom, Truth is not cheap. Yet both are worth more than all the gold in the world. But w... 
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no... 
God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and... 
All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. 
The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same ti... 
All history is one continuous pestilence. There is no truth and there is no illusion. There is nowhe... 
There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness. 
The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that cre... 
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o... 
There's always a germ of truth in just about everything. 
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 
Let me tell you what the truth is... I have learned one thing in life: there is no such thing as bad... 
There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth wit... 
Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find... 
Every lie is a poison; there are no harmless lies. Only the truth is safe. Only the truth gives me c... 
I don't think there is any truth. There are only points of view. 
There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a s... 
There is no original truth, only original error. 
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate. 
Hate is all a lie, there is no truth in hate 
The life of the Addict is always the same. There is no excitement, no glamour, no fun. There are no ... 
There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different... 
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom o... 
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more log... 
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency. 
The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the my... 
The kinds of truth that art gives us many, many times are small truths. They don't have the reso... 
Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth... 
Wherever you are, be all there. 
What is truth" I was asked. "Truth is neither good nor bad. Neither evil nor pure. It just is." That... 
Every one of us can do something about the truth. You can at least stand for the truth wherever you ... 
We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, ... 
There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth. 
A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. Th... 
I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone. 
I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it's spoken. 
There is truth in humor, but not humor in truth. 
In documentaries, there's a truth that unfolds unnaturally, and you get to chronicle it. In narr... 
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, i... 
I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possibl... 
Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it... 
I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling the... 
There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can b... 
I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'... 
There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive a... 