Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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The world is always in movement.
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A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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Historically, the Balkans have been an incubator of war.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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My life is not perfect.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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We belong on the cutting edge of innovation. That's an idea as old as America itself. We're a nation of tinkerers, and dreamers, and believers in a better tomorrow.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest; And deal full many a thoughtless blow, To those who love us best. Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. There is new strength, repose of mind, and inspiration in fresh apparel.
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My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.
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That record she did with Peter Gabriel saved my life. That record helped me get sober. So she played a big part in my actual downfall and kind of 'rebirth'' as it were. That record helped me so much. I never told her that, but it did.
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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
