Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
Quotes to Explore
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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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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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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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My friends started having children after college, while I was pursuing this crazy acting career and living hand to mouth. Plus, all my boyfriends were artists struggling to make a living. Having kids didn't make any sense - why would I take on more of a financial burden when I couldn't even afford a dog?
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You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
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Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
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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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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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Unilateralism, as we have painfully seen in Iraq, is its own reward. Going it alone may satisfy a political instinct but it is dangerous to our military, even without their Commander in Chief taunting terrorists to 'bring it on.'
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So I quit my job and went to the New England Culinary Institute for the full two years and worked in the restaurant industry after that until finally I thought I had a grasp on what I needed to do what I do.
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I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.
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Our party is - we don't have the problems that the other party has. We're not divided. We don't have to worry about, you know, what people are saying on the side or about their affection for the president or - we don't have those problems and we don't have the reinvention convention.
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Jane Austen is very amusing.
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When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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To Mercy Pity Peace and Love All pray in their distress, And to these virtues of delight Return their thankfulness. For Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is God our father dear. And Mercy Pity Peace and Love Is Man his child and care. Then every man of every clime That prays in his distress Prays to the human form divine: Love Mercy Pity Peace. And all must love the human form In heathen, Turk, or Jew. Where Mercy, Love and Pity dwell There God is dwelling too.
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I think it is going to be very difficult for any church that still calls itself a church, never to try and convince someone that their religion is the best one.
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I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.
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Purity strikes me as the most mysterious of the virtues and the more I think about it the less I know about it.
