Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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My number one thing is to recycle everything from newspaper to aluminum cans, and I even use a canvas bag instead of the plastic ones when I go to the grocery store.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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There will never be talking pictures.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I've never worked in advertising - my experience was as an editorial designer for magazines - but you could say, in the bigger picture, that magazines are vehicles for colour advertising.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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Dolphins games always have been among the most popular NFL telecasts in England.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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Most people are searching for a path to success that is both easy and certain. Most paths are neither.
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Imagine the possibilities if humanity banded together before disaster struck to relieve everyday suffering worldwide.
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Most of the time I was in grammar school through high school, I was in some kind of rock n' roll band. I would say that at least 80 percent of my energy was involved with whatever band I was involved in.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.
