Flannery O'Connor Quotes
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
Quotes to Explore
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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I am not a hereditary politician and do not have any substantial asset.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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I don't really yell at people.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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It can't be any simpler: the farewell is going to be on the Champs-Elysees.
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Different days, I think about different victories. Ricky Hatton is one of those fights. I respect Ricky Hatton. He's a warrior. He's a hell of a warrior.
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For myself, losing is not coming second. It's getting out of the water knowing you could have done better. For myself, I have won every race I've been in.
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The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is illustrated by Sonny Liew, an artist who lives in Singapore.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
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It is a great deal of difference to receive an honorary title or a title in his profession.
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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
