Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
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I'm very soulful. I grew up singing in church. When I sing a song, I like to feel what I'm singing.
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I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.
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I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.
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I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
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It's properly scary playing a leading man. Growing up, I always wanted to be a character actor.
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Life is short and progress is slow.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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A saint realizes that it is God who engineers his circumstances; consequently there are no complaints, only unrestrained surrender to Jesus.
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Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.
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The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates.
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You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
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When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded behind so much ice, it had infuriated his wolf.
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At your church, the week is more important than the weekend. Empower people and send them out for the week.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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Death is easy, and sudden, and can’t be stopped.
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But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of.
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A vague uneasiness: the police. It's like when you suddenly understand you have to undress in front of the doctor.
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He, who for an ordinary cause, resigns the fate of his patient to mercury, is a vile enemy to the sick; and, if he is tolerably popular, will, in one successful season, have paved the way for the business of life, for he has enough to do, ever afterward, to stop the mercurial breach of the constitutions of his dilapidated patients. He has thrown himself in fearful proximity to death, and has now to fight him at arm's length as long as the patient maintains a miserable existence.
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Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.
