Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

Flannery O'Connor

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• He's an honest man - you could shoot craps with him over the telephone.

  

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• One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.

  

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• The Japanese version comes with a translation, but that's different from the lyrics, so people could look things up and find a translation of their own if they're interested.

  

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• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

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• Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.

  

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• That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.

  

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• But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?

  

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• The whole trip that happened in the late 60s and 70s was kind of a throwback to a lot of folk styles. I got into it as well 'cause I started with the folk styles.

  

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• The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.

  

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• I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Writing
  • Feel
  • Overcoming