Flannery O'Connor Quotes
People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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One of the biggest challenges for the MENA region is unemployment coupled with high population growth rates. The World Bank is committed to supporting infrastructure projects that will help with job creation across the region.
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I think happiness is a combination of pleasure, engagement and meaningfulness.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I love books.
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It only looks like I get to eat a lot of food on TV. I really just get the one bite and the crew and guests eat everything else.
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I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.
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Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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When I was young I had an apprenticeship as an engineer.
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In the coming era of manned space exploration by the private sector, market forces will spur development and yield new, low-cost space technologies. If the history of private aviation is any guide, private development efforts will be safer, too.
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I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much as possible what he sees so that some people think about things that they don’t normally think about… [Art] should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.
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It may or may not sound pretentious. But I`ve turned down, consciously and specifically, many jobs I knew would have been a pretty surefire way to go about making a lot of money, being recognized and gaining power in the industry.
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I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.
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People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.
