Flannery O'Connor Quotes
If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
Quotes to Explore
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.
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It takes the pressure off of your better players to know they don't always have to be on top of their game for the team to do well.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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When I was in college, I used to love to watch football on Sundays.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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In documentary films, you're a storyteller using found objects. You still have to have a story arc and all the elements that make a good story. It really helped me mature as a storyteller.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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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 love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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I have got everything which a politician needs.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I believe that miracles happen every day. Every person is a miracle. Every moment is a miracle. If only we can open our eyes, we'll see God's love everywhere.
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I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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I'm a future legend. And you're the legend killer.
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Looking at where you went to school is a proxy; you assume, because someone went to a good school, therefore they must have the qualities you desire, even though that's not actually really true.
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If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.
