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Flannery O'Connor quotes

American Author March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964

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He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery... Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and..."
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "I love a lot of people, understand none of them..."
I love a lot of people, understand none of them... Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after..."
Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes. Flannery O'Connor
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny. Flannery O'Connor
When you leave a man alone with his Bible and the Holy Ghost inspires him, he's going to be a Catholic one way or another, even though he knows nothing about the visible church. His kind of Christianity may not be socially desirable, but will be real in the sight of God. Flannery O'Connor
The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience. When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax a little and use more normal ways of talking to it; when you have to assume that it... Flannery O'Connor
She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life. Flannery O'Connor
The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot. Flannery O'Connor
He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information..."
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had..."
She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and..."
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for..."
Anyone who survived childhood has enough material to write for the rest of his or her life. Flannery O'Connor
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost. Flannery O'Connor

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