Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Foreign aid is not something the vast majority of Americans support, but definitely not conservatives.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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You can't hit what you can't see.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it's getting into the system - the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We're not seeing that in other states.
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A wise lover values not so much the gift of the lover as the love of the giver.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.
