Flannery O’Connor quotes - page 2

You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd. (Flannery O’Connor)
It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes. View quote
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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. View quote
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too. View quote
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All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. View quote
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Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. View quote
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I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. View quote
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I love a lot of people, understand none of them. View quote
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Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity. View quote
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character. View quote
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A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. (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. View quote
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Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe. View quote
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Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. View quote
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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) View quote
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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience. View quote
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The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. View quote
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Grace changes us and change is painful". View quote
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I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. View quote
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. View quote
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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it. (Flannery O’Connor)
...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. View quote
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree. View quote
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I write to discover what I know. View quote
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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them. View quote
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