Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Flannery O'Connor
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
Oriana Fallaci
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
Aaron Sorkin
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
Zara Phillips
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I'm a little angry in life.
Vincent Cassel
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
Hanya Yanagihara
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
Umera Ahmad
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Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?
Ernest Hemingway
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It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'
David Sedaris
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People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.
Hermann Hesse
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Don't tell anyone this, but I have never been to Disneyworld. I don't know if I ever will, but I would like to.
Brad Barkley
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Flannery O'Connor
