Flannery O'Connor Short Quotes

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

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Art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.

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Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

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The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.

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Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

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The writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

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She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.

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Enoch never nagged his blood to tell him a thing until it was ready.

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It is the business of the artist to uncover the strangeness of truth

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He looked like a goat. He had little raisin eyes and a string beard.

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Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.

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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

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If there were no hell, we would be like the animals. No hell, no dignity.

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If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.

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Belief, in my own case anyway, is the engine that makes perception operate.

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Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

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The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.

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You have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.

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While the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

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The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.

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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.

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When she told a story, she rolled her eyes and waved her head and was very dramatic.

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Woman! Do you ever look inside? Do you ever look inside and see what you are not? God!

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A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.

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