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
Quotes to Explore
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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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Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical deduction—studying nothing. In the Middle Ages, the great minds capable of transforming the world did not study the world; and so, for most of a millennium, as human beings screamed in agony—decaying from starvation, eaten by leprosy and plague, dying in droves in their twenties—the men of the mind, who could have provided their earthly salvation, abandoned them for otherworldly fantasies.
Andrew Bernstein
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The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.
John Walsh
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Also, in my acting, I feel very much like a storyteller, exploring the flaws of the characters that I interpret. I look for the imperfections, and I love a character that is just so flawed.
Danny Huston
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Marge, it's 3 AM. Shouldn't you be cooking or something?
Dan Castellaneta
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All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities.
Thomas Sowell
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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
