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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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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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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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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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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People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.
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When I was a kid... I don't know which was more embarrassing, when I was really into The Beatles or when I was a hippie.
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As a memoirist, I may claim to write the easier-to-remember things, but I could also just be writing to sweep them away. 'Don't bother me about my past,' I'll say, 'It's out in paperback now.'
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Though films have established me as an actor, dance has given me an identity and a boost to my career, and I am thankful to God for that.
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Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.
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Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.
