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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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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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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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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Happy and alone, you say? Reclusive and merry? How oxymoronic! Pas possible! Alas, the concept is lost on so many.
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I grew up with singers. My father's mother sang opera. My dad was a big band singer. I can't remember a time there wasn't music in the house, so I grew up listening to great songwriters - George Gershwin, Cole Porter - and my grandma was playing opera for me before I was 3.
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I want you to remember the guiding principles of my life. You can be what you want to be, if you believe in yourself and work hard, because anything, and I'm telling you anything, is possible.
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Remember that you don't write a story because you have an idea but because you have a believable character.
