Flannery O'Connor Quotes
So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Quotes to Explore
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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This is really honest: I have to remind myself not to look another black man as a threat.
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If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
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He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train.
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
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God is a God who has not given up on His people. If He wanted to give up, He would have given up back in the Garden of Eden.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
