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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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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I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.
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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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I've always wanted to do, oddly enough, a live variety show, but only with a live audience.
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I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming back and making a difference. It's a delicate balance, but one feeds off the other. I feel so good about the show - it's uplifting and inspiring and entertaining at the same time.
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When I was a teenager, I did a lot of pull-ups and push-ups. Every night before bed, I'd do 150 - in sets of 30 or so. Looking back on it now, I'm not totally sure that's the best way to improve as a climber. But it did make me a lot better at doing pull-ups and push-ups.
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
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Economists have understood since the Victorian era that the main benefits of trade come from comparative advantage: the idea that people can specialize in what they're good at and then benefit from exchange. The principle is no more mysterious than specialization in the labor market.
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I think. I do know that I like connecting to people who really resonate with the music. I guess I almost wish I could just connect with the people who really need it.
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The thing I don't understand about homosexuals is, how do they decide which one is the one who's supposed to pretend they don't want it?
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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.
