Flannery O'Connor Quotes

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

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• Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.

  

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• When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.

  

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• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

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• I am a good, strong word giver; I am a jealous guard of my own secrets. Freedom is the rule; I am hungry for one good thing I can do.

  

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• I'm not in a position to go back into public service.

  

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• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

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• Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.

  

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• We always hear from newspapers that while people understand the environmental challenge, they are unwilling to stomach the solutions. The trouble is, we only ever hear about the solutions from the media, and for whatever reason, they are almost always caricatured beyond recognition. If there's no appetite for green, it's not surprising.

  

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• Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.

  

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• He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.

  

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• Subject matter is sort of overemphasized in the way books get discussed, I think.

  

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• Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

  

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• When we were on the road, I found out that my greatest hits album went Gold. They freaked out. Things really came to a head when we started arguing about a Van Halen greatest hits package.

  

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• I know that my tendency is to be linear, and I'm trying to find ways to subvert that. And so in 'Bellocq's Ophelia' my device for subverting it was to tell the story and then to tell it again; it always circles back to this one moment, and it's not linear, but it's round in that way, and much of 'Native Guard' is like that.

  

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• Two of my favorite things are my steering wheel and my Remington rifle.

  

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• The Marcos era was the golden time for the Philippines. We had the lowest crime rate in the world in Manila and real development then. At last, people are starting to understand this.

  

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• I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something.

  

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• Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.

  

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• The biggest effect celebrity had on me was that I stopped being open and receptive and started to walk around with my head down.

  

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• When you look at other good-bad movies like 'Sharknado' and 'Birdemic,' those movies know that they're B movies, know that they're silly and over the top, as opposed to 'The Room,' where Tommy Wiseau, the guy at the centre of it all, he attempted to make a very earnest drama.

  

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• 'You’re the U. S. Robot’s psychologist, aren’t you?' 'Robopsychologist, please.' 'Oh, are robots so different from men, mentally?' 'Worlds different.' She allowed herself a frosty smile, 'Robots are essentially decent.'

  

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• She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
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