Flannery O'Connor Quotes
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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This man who was my father's age hit me hard on my head when I was 17. I started bleeding. I took out my sandal and hit his head hard, and he started to bleed, too.
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At some point in time I will be honored if I would be mentioned as a coach.
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My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family.
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Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.
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Conflict is the pursuit of truth.
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After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
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Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look toward alternatives.
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I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'
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I love writing. It makes me so happy.
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American workers are the best in the world. They teach our children, care for our sick and elderly, build our communities, and much more.
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Songs are like a form of chaos that you can control. It's a form of intelligence that maybe you only understand and you hope that someone else can understand. And you can be anyone you want: you can be as grandiose as you want or you can be as down in the gutter as you want. It's just sort of whatever emotional freeway you're on at the time.
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I moonlight as a singer.
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It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.
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If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.
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One writes not by will but by surrender.
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The notion that work is a burden is a terrible mistake. Working and facing up to one's responsibilities: That's happiness.
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As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race.
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I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.
