When I went in, my guy was sitting in the paint. He wasn't even guarding me. That's the most disrespect I've seen on a basketball court.


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Marry for love. But also choose to marry a man or woman who you love that treats you with the ultima...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
There will be a time when love is beautiful and passionate and nothing else will exist but you and t...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
To love without ownership, to love with total trust and faith in that very love, to love with the sa...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
My feeling on the subject of sex with a man is - don't give it up unless you're willing to give him ...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Life is surreal. When you step back and really take a look at it, the irony is absolute.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Ladies, you have a ton of power if you just understand the fundamental differences between men and w...
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I write to discover what I know.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I s...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Then Dad started going on about the complex geological formations in this part of the coast until Mu...
KERRIE O'CONNOR
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay....
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Grace changes us and change is painful".
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The high-school English teacher will be fulfilling his responsibility if he furnishes the student a ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is t...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an arti...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those ...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
That belief in Christ is to some a matter of life and death has been a stumbling block for readers w...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
That's the trouble with you preachers," he said. "You've all got too good to believe in anything," a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno...
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
They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One w...
JOSEPH O'CONNOR
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding a...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
Marriage is a blast. Like a bomb.
JULIEANNE 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
It is beyond logic that we see the light.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
Whatever it may bring, I will live by my own policies, I will sleep with a clear conscience, I will ...
SINEAD O'CONNOR
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR
You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would hav...
BARBARA O'CONNOR
When it comes to happiness, why would anyone want to delay it?
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR
There are more gifts in who you are than there are in who you think you want to be.
JULIEANNE O'CONNOR