Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.
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I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.
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You've got to separate the singer and the songs.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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I lost my confidence.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
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No love of the natural heart is safe unless the human heart has been satisfied by God FIRST.
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Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
