Flannery O'Connor Quotes
She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
Flannery O'Connor
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Any time you're a poster child for the CIA, there are a lot of people that are - either have ideological or they are mentally unbalanced - that are going to try to find you and perhaps cause you harm.
Valerie Plame
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Though Nathalie Dupree did not remember much about my presence in her class, it marked me forever. I remain her enthusiast, her evangelist, her acolyte, and her grateful student. She taught me that cooking and storytelling make the most delightful coconspirators.
Pat Conroy
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Natural Texas politicians make terrible, terrible presidential candidates. Phil Gramm, I remember the 'Phil Gramm for President' campaign. I thought that was the worst thing in the history of the world, but Rick Perry was possibly worse.
Gail Collins
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So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.
Camryn Manheim
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Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.
Lady Gregory
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
W. Bruce Cameron
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I can't be the kind of leader you want me to. I will never, ever be the kind of leader you want me to be. And I will be better because of it.
Beth Revis
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If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.
Oswald Chambers
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Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I don't like stories that are too neat and too resolved. I think resolutions can be deadening for the reader.
Danzy Senna
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I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain—especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state.
Albert Einstein
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She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.
Flannery O'Connor