All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
Flannery O'Connor
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
Flannery O'Connor
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
Flannery O'Connor
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