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.
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I probably remember the 1954 Masters more vividly than any of the others.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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I don't suppose anybody's ever enjoyed being who they are more than Arnold's enjoyed being Arnold Palmer.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved.
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The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.
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I got very addicted to performing. I just want to do that more.
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What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not?
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
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Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.
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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.
