Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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I love the perspective afforded by having lived five decades, a degree of bemused and muted calm, a relief from the insistent demands of a turbulent ego and rampant ambition. I'd love to stay here forever. But something tells me that 50 is a sunny idyll, a temporary state of grace, a golden afternoon.
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The highest state is laughter.
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Camp Southern Ground is a lot more than a camp. It's more of a campus.
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Lots of girls marry at 16 in Tennessee.
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Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.
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The only bad thing is that we didn't win at Tennessee. Kiffin left that program in a bad position.
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I am a supporter of the state of Israel.
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They need a new community on higher ground.
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This country is about history, and unless the Serbs in particular come to some understanding of this history, we cannot build a stable state.
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It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
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I think leadership is creating a state of mind in others.
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If we are to assume that North Korea becomes a nuclear-power state, of course the danger of having an all-out nuclear war, that possibility is very slim.
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The state of the world terrifies me. It feels more powerful personally to fight it through larger actions as opposed to trying to fight the Trump administration itself. It's sort of self-preservation for my mental health. If I spend too much of my energy and my brain on Trump, I'd lose my mind.
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The charnel ground is that great graveyard in which the complexities of samsara and nirvana lie buried.
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I am a proponent of investing in infrastructure… and, if we can use state resources to make ProvPort more prosperous and successful, then that will benefit the whole state.
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The Church is the merciless heart of the State.
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That state is a state of slavery in which a man does what he likes to do in his spare time and in his working time that which is required of him.
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The route of the train of Israeli justice must take into account the Jewishness of the state.
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There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.
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World peace through nonviolent means is neither absurd nor unattainable. All other methods have failed. Thus we must begin anew. Nonviolence is a good starting point. Those of us who believe in this method can be voices of reason, sanity, and understanding amid the voices of violence, hatred, and emotion. We can very well set a mood of peace out of which a system of peace can be built.
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I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.
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If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.
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Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.
