The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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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.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR We?re from Pennsylvania. I?m not even sure they know where they?re at.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.
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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...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR In yourself right now is all the place you've got.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write to discover what I know.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Grace changes us and change is painful".
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of compete...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recolle...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR [W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am onl...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR ...sitting with him was like sitting by yourself; he didn't talk except when it suited him. You aske...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR You might as well go one place as another," he said. "That's all I know.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's gl...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR This shiffer-robe belongs to Hazel Motes. Do not steal it or you will be hunted down and killed.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free w...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR I can smell the sin on your breath.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two ...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR ...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be concei...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are all kinds of truth ... but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that the...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Now the second common characteristic of fiction follows from this, and it is that fiction is present...
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
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