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Flannery O'Connor quotes

American Author March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964

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Flannery O'Connor quote: "People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is..."
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing."
Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing. Flannery O'Connor
In the first place you can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I think it is better to be a combination of cautious and polite Flannery O'Connor
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from..."
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. Flannery O'Connor
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it Flannery O'Connor
Poorly written novels -- no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters -- are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their..."
She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity. Flannery O'Connor
The novelist makes his statements by selection, and if he is any good, he selects every word for a reason, every detail for a reason, every incident for a reason, and arranges them in a certain time-sequence for a reason. He demonstrates something that cannot possibly be demonstrated any other way than with a whole novel. Flannery O'Connor
I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes to join him, another flies off the roof, four or five crash out of the crepe-myrtle hedge; from the pond one screams and from the barn I hear the dairyman denouncing another that has got into the cow-feed. My kin are given to such phrases as, 'Let's face it. Flannery O'Connor
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way. Flannery O'Connor
I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from any religion but Christianity, because it concerns specifically Christ and the Incarnation, the fact that there has been a unique intervention in history. It’s not a matter in these stories of Do Unto Others. That can be found in any ethical cultural series. It is the fact of the Word made flesh. Flannery O'Connor
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will. Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor quote: "I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing."
I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing. Flannery O'Connor
With a volley of blasts it emerged from the shed, moving in a fierce and stately way. Mr. Shiftlet was in the driver’s seat, sitting very erect. He had an expression of serious modesty on his face as if he had just raised the dead. Flannery O'Connor

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