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Flannery O'Connor quotes

American Author March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964

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Flannery O'Connor quote: "His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark..."
His plate was full but his fists sat motionless like two dark quartz stones on either side of it. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in..."
I don't have to run from anything because I don't believe in anything. Flannery O'Connor
If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. Flannery O'Connor
The reader may not see [these meanings], but they have their effect on him nonetheless. This is the way the modern novelist sinks, or hides his theme Flannery O'Connor
Freedom is of no use without taste and without the ordinary competence to follow the particular laws of what we have been given to do. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles..."
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "I find that most people know what a story is until they sit..."
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and..."
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are..."
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. Flannery O'Connor
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures. Flannery O'Connor
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a..."
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. Flannery O'Connor
Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin."
Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "She felt that she would have to be much more than just a..."
She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint... Flannery O'Connor

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