Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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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.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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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.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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The flesh is the surface of the unknown.
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I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.
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It's very rare to see an undisturbed birth in a modern U.S. teaching hospital, but when you see a woman who isn't frightened, who's giving birth without interference, you stand back in awe and realize how little needed you are except in the rare circumstance.
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I was never good at scratching, but I was good at collecting old records. Florida was a great place for that, because it's where people go to die.
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My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to - Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang - was coming out of New York. I'm just into it.
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The working class is my home country, and my future is linked with the proletariat.
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
