522 Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

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    There is nothing like being pleased with your own work - and this is the best stage - before it is published and begins to be misunderstood.

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    What people don't realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

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    When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

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    Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol. Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.

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    Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.

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