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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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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Certainly it is okay for them to play. I see no reason in the world why we shouldn't compete with colored athletes as long as they conduct themselves with politeness and gentility. Let me say also that no white man has the right to be less of a gentleman than a colored man, in my book that goes not only for baseball but in all walks of life.
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The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
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I'm a huge Marlene Dietrich fan. She's got this raunchy kind of strength. It would be hard to find a man who could come up with something hard for her to handle. She's seen it all and done it all.
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It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
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Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.
