Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
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"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."
Flannery O'Connor
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd."
Flannery O'Connor Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
"She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything."
Flannery O'Connor Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
"There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored. The reader of today looks for this motion, and rightly so, but what he has forgotten is the cost of it. His sense of evil is diluted or lacking altogether, and so he has forgotten the price of restoration. When he reads a novel, he wants either his sense tormented or his spirits raised. He wants to be transported, instantly, either to mock damnation or a mock innocence."
Flannery O'Connor Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system."
Flannery O'Connor Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."
Flannery O'Connor Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
"Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them."
Flannery O'Connor
"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 Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."
Flannery O'Connor
"Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not."
Flannery O'Connor
"I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth."
Flannery O'Connor
"Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay."
Flannery O'Connor
"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."
Flannery O'Connor
"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
Flannery O'Connor
"To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks."
Flannery O'Connor
"Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character."
Flannery O'Connor
"The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation."
Flannery O'Connor
"I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened."
Flannery O'Connor
"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
Flannery O'Connor
"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness."
Flannery O'Connor
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