Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.
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The one thing I will never do is become pigeonholed.
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Far too many executives have become more concerned with the 'four P's' - pay, perks, power and prestige - rather than making profits for shareholders.
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Cynicism is something which has become symbolic of imperial policy.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.
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We did not become libertarians because we are altruists.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It has never entered my head, nor is it likely to enter the head of any other person.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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Ten million dollars after I'd become a star I was deeply in debt.
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It's a fairly recent thing but I've become very fond of making drinks myself.
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To be honest, I've just become a Steelers fan.
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Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
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Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.
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Many works of the ancients have become fragments. Many works of the moderns are fragments at the time of their origin.
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If I hadn't been a model, I couldn't have become a movie actress.
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The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.
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Okay is just a word I use so I won't have to talk about what's inside. Okay is a word that means I am going to keep my secrets.
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We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become such that we can no longer adapt ourselves, only if, deep inside, we rebel against every kind of evil, will we be able to put a stop to it. ... while everything within us does not yet scream out in protest, so long will we find ways of adapting ourselves, and the horrors will continue.
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Words are all we have.
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Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
