Flannery O'Connor - The Complete Stories

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

Flannery O'Connor

The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

Flannery O'Connor

Living had got to be such a habit with him that he couldn't conceive of any other condition.

Flannery O'Connor

I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from.

Flannery O'Connor

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.

Flannery O'Connor