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I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.
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For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. Death, decay, destruction are the suspension of these laws. I am always astonished at the emphasis the Church puts on the body. It is not the soul she says that will rise but the body, glorified.
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Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
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I am tired of reading reviews that call A Good Man brutal and sarcastic. The stories are hard but they are hard because there is nothing harder or less sentimental than Christian realism.... when I see these stories described as horror stories I am always amused because the reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror.
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I am also five three and in the neighborhood of one thirty. It is a neighborhood I would like to get out of.
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
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If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference.
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I never understand how writers can succumb to vanity — what you work the hardest on is usually the worst.
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I certainly am glad you like the stories because now I feel it's not bad that I like them so much. The truth is I like them better than anybody and I read them over and over and laugh and laugh, then get embarrassed when I remember I was the one wrote them.
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I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.
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I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Flannery O'Connor
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Born:
March 25, 1925
Died:
August 3, 1964
(aged 39)
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