Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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I have many debates now with friends on the changes, and the continuing confusion over bringing up your children, instilling values, letting them make the right choices.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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I have very eclectic tastes.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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For the most part, the real work is done in the songwriting stage and recording; the next step is presenting to people.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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Political people don't solve stuff - not really. Political people are like guys in pop music.
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Romance is something people make fun of others for caring about, and yet it’s something that’s very natural to care about—it’s a loving connection between people, like family and friendships: it’s a significant emotional choice people make.
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It is true what Rimbaud said; If you think a book is strong enough, try it at the ocean, in the wind, at the waves. If the book can resist the ocean, then it exists. Otherwise, throw it away.
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But risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel, change, grow or live. Chained by his servitude he is a slave who has forfeited all freedom. Only a person who risks is free. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; and the realist adjusts the sails
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Photography is a bridge between science and art. It brings to science what it needs most, the artistic sense, and to art the proof that nothing can be imagined which cannot be matched in the counterpoints of nature.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.
