Flannery O'Connor
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have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE GEORGE R.R. MARTIN BILL SHANKLEY HUGH ROSS BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Life is a matter of choosing what is good for you. NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA I would give something up if it was a matter of life or death, but for financial reasons, no. ANDREW WILLIAMS Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than ... BILL SHANKLY GEORGE R.R. MARTIN NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE A thief stops stealing when he dies SOTONYE ANGA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE In 1964, at the age of 39, Flannery O'Connor died from complications of lupus. She had lived wit... FLOYD SKLOOT SARAH J. MAAS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Marlena's body was found on November 19, and so I consider that the anniversary of her death, though... JULIE BUNTIN JOE BIDEN Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure t... BILL SHANKLY In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's al... JACK ANTONOFF BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON ROB LIANO DONALD RAY POLLOCK FREDRIK BACKMAN MILAN KUNDERA JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY MADELINE MILLER I’d give in to the grief but make sure I wasn’t loud enough to draw attention from those who thi... ADAM SILVERA WALTER MOSLEY But surely Uncle Akbar could not be dead as they were dead? There must be something indestructible �... M.M. KAYE BRIAN BLESSED BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA C. JOYBELL C. It's a similar block of land like what you have here with some private houses on it, and that was a ... GLENN PATTON Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear... AVIJEET DAS Lack of Windows application support has been the biggest stumbling block for Linux in India. ASHISH KAMOTRA A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD ABHIJIT NASKAR We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter o... GAMEL ABDEL NASSER We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter o... GAMAL ABDEL NASSER SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS KARIN SLAUGHTER KARIN SLAUGHTER NICHOLAS SPARKS She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr... GAIL CARRIGER DAVID NOVAK CHARLES FRAZIER ALLY CARTER MITCH ALBOM If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER CRAIG GROESCHEL T. D. JAKES BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA WANGARI MAATHAI FLANNERY O'CONNOR May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter. NATHANIEL SMITH May the Lord our God prepare us for every event then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter. NATHANIEL SMITH I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY
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No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try. 
I love Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, Flannery O'Connor. I read a lot of American writers. 
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We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... 
The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a sing... 
Like a deep sad note
It is a lie. 
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Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over 
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
Some people think football is a matter of life and death...I can assure them it is much more serious... 
To insist that belief in the Bible demands belief in a young Earth is to put a stumbling block in th... 
The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... 
She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... 
Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. 
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You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. 
It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matt... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
Life is a matter of really tough choices. 
Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we ha... 
The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives. 
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He Is Not Dead
When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. 
It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-ou... 
Life is a re-discovery. 
Death has become like a tyrant who has been completely conquered by the legitimate monarch; bound ha... 
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Belief is exclusively a matter of personal domain. It has nothing to do with reality. 
The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison 
You do what you love, what you need 
Perhaps the main stumbling block to a better, and more fruitful, theological relationship with Judai... 
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemp... 
Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. 
I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day. 
Life Is a Misconception. 
Life is a desire! 
Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. 
As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like d... 
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and i... 
He had a winning smile and it was evident that he didn't think he was any better than anybody else e... 
In yourself right now is all the place you've got. 
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. 
Do the best you can in every task, no matter how unimportant it may seem at the time. No one learns ...