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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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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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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I have always thought respectable people scoundrels, and I look anxiously at my face every morning for signs of my becoming a scoundrel.
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I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.
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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.
