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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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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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 now have faith in those who say they represent a faith. Whereas before I was like, 'Do not give me a lecture on how to live my life when I know I'm a pretty decent human being. I might not go to church every day, but I know I do the right thing or try to. You're going to church and you're still sleeping around on your wife and spending everyone's money. How are you better than I am?' So I've finally met people that walk the walk and it's made me happy, really happy.
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Oh, Kendra, before I forget, Gavin asked me to give you this letter." He held out a gray, speckled envelope. "Happy birthday to you!" Seth exclaimed, his voice full of implications. Kendra tried not to blush as she tucked the envelope away. "Dear Kendra," Seth improvised, "you're the only girl who really gets me, you know, and I think you're very mature for your age--" "What about some cake?" Grandma interrupted, holding the first piece out to Kendra and glaring at Seth.
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On my cornice linger the ripe black grapes ungathered; Children fill the groves with the echoes of their glee, Gathering tawny chestnuts, and shouting when beside them Drops the heavy fruit of the tall black-walnut tree.
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Jamal's a house, ... I tried to tackle him in the Pro Bowl a couple times and he's not an easy guy to bring down. He's a big boy and he runs hard. We've got our work cut out for us. We've got to stay in our gaps and be sure tacklers.
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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.
