Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actually are.
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I'm no stranger to the occasional dodgy juice, but it doesn't taste very nice and it is bloody boring. It's not a way to live.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
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I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy working, but not to the point where that's the only thing I focus on.
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Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
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It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.
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This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.
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If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
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GOD is watching us, from a Distance.
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I think in this world and this industry, if you let it, it does. And I feel that the people who don't have good friends and family around them are the ones who get a little funny. But I'm very lucky. I have good friends and good family and if I ever stepped out of line, my mom would take me down!
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One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
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John Cheever was the first writer I ever read who sort of had that similar sensation that, you know, life is nasty, miserable, brutish and short, but that occasionally, there's a certain river of light, a kind word, a telling gesture that sort of illuminates something.
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I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.
