Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
Quotes to Explore
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A leader has the vision and conviction that a dream can be achieved. He inspires the power and energy to get it done.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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My focus on the budget, though, has played second fiddle to what I believe is even more important - creating jobs.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I'm not a leading man.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Overall, I think the main thing a musician would like to do is give to the listener the many wonderful things he knows of and senses in the universe... That's what I would like to do. I think that's one of the greatest things you can do in life, and we all try to do that in some way. The musician's is through his music.
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If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument constitutionally or rhetorically you can make against multiple people getting married. These are radical social changes.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. Music is love itself - it is the purest, most ethereal language of passion, showing in a thousand ways all possible changes of color and feeling; and though true in only a single instance, it yet can be understood by thousands of men - who all feel differently.
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Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.
