Flannery O'Connor Quotes
The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
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I don't have a type. I don't have a specific kind of human being. It's just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I've ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.
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To me, a bag in a tree is like a flag of chaos, and when I remove it, I'm capturing the flag of the other side. In the end, it doesn't matter how ironic or serious or even effective on a larger scale bag snagging may be.
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Because we always have to wear a uniform to compete, my teammates and I look the exact same. My belt is the only accessory that I get to choose. I usually wear a yellow cloth belt with cherries or a leather belt with a beautiful tree buckle that I got at a thrift store.
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A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention.
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I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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One of my favorite films is 'Pretty Woman.'
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I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there.
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I think I made essential a mistake in staying in movies, because I - but it's a mistake I can't regret, because it's like saying, 'I shouldn't have stayed married to that woman, but I did because I love her.'
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In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even though I'm the only woman in a headscarf there, because the guy next to me has a beard and a Sailor Moon costume.
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When I was nearly twelve years old, my kind mistress sickened and died.
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She teaches me to be kind, punctual... and to stand up for myself. And when I think about it, aren't these things every mother should teach their daughter?
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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Maybe if everybody in leadership was a woman, you might not get into the conflicts in the first place. But if you watch the women who have made it to the top, they haven't exactly been non-aggressive - including me.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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I grew up in a place where everybody was a storyteller, but nobody wrote. It was that kind of Celtic, storytelling tradition: everybody would have a story at the pub or at parties, even at the clubs and raves.
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Whenever I'm with a woman I whisper softly into her ear, 'Will you touch my vagina...?' and she's like, 'What!?' and I'm like, 'That's what you're supposed to say.'
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To make a book convincing, it's less important that the right tree be in the right place than that the characters are emotionally real.
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The social compact sets up among the citizens as equality of such kind, that they all bind themselves to observe the same conditions and should therefore all enjoy the same rights.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
