Flannery O'Connor Quotes
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
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Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
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Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.
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Peace is more difficult than war.
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[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin. In my own experience, everything funny I have written is more terrible than it is funny, or only funny because it is terrible, or only terrible because it is funny.
