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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You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.
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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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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .
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...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.
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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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The trouble with the world was that nobody stopped or took any care.
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