Flannery O'Connor
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bringeth forth his fruit in his se... BIBLE URSULA K. LE GUIN It was a strange feeling, holding the rifle. It somehow removed him from everything around him. With... GARY PAULSEN According to Mark 11:12-13, God's messengers were not the only ones who were incompetent: 'He [Jesus... G.M. JACKSON He's not a typical Storm Cat in that he has a great mind. You wouldn't know that he was in the barn ... ELLIOTT WALDEN A leopard doesn't change his spots just because you bring him in from the jungle and try to housebre... GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of... FLOYD SKLOOT I turned around the corner and saw him starting to scramble. The first time I was coming from behind... ANTWAN PEEK AESOP JACK LONDON NICOLE KRAUSS KIERSTEN WHITE We knew where it was because of its radio collar, and we treed it using hounds. We tranquilized it, ... DEBORAH JANSEN (Knox) was frustrated with me anyway, throughout the early game, and that kind of iced it for him. I... JIM ZORN But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree:... BIBLE THOMAS JEFFERSON ABRAHAM LINCOLN PHIL KLAY 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married. JAMES C. DOBSON CORMAC MCCARTHY JOSEPH CONRAD STEPHANIE PERKINS The thing about trees is that they know what to do. When a leaf loses its colour, it's not because i... ALI SMITH And when he looked, he saw the canopy had folded under and then he saw the victim hit the ground and... DAVE BOOTON DONALD RAY POLLOCK EDITH WHARTON I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influ... DAVID ALMOND Suddenly he saw himself as others in the crowd must surely see him; a silent, solitary figure, stand... MARY LAWSON The tree of life is made of purity, eternity and has the bark of wisdom and enlightenment.With its b... GARY F EVANS... It's not trickle down economics. The problem that the president has is that he's rudderless ... JOHN KASICH And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him o... BIBLE LEWIS CARROLL WALT WHITMAN FREDERICK W. FABER We know they definitely weren't shooting at the bus, it appeared to be an accident, but it's still a... JEFF LUTHER FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE JOSEPH SMITH, JR. I knew he was coming. I just wanted to direct him where to slide to. We had a wild-pitch read from o... ERIC ETCHISON Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense... ROBERT MORGAN BLAISE PASCAL Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye? They said unto him, Ra... BIBLE RAYMOND CHANDLER TONI MORRISON LEWIS CARROLL When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you k... WILLIAM SCRANTON KIRAN DESAI Grissom comes from a place where we know he had a deaf mother, he was raised in a silent household, ... WILLIAM PETERSEN MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS
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You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... 
Pain has creative power,
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