Flannery O'Connor Quotes
It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I don't really yell at people.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.
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Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
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I know that my image and my clothing and my output are very colorful and can be arresting and startling in some respects. That is the nature of my work, but I am a simple farm boy, and I am very calm by nature.
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When you're young, you develop ways to win, and you think they will always work, but then you get to the top, competing against the other top athletes, and sometimes things don't work.
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When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.
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It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
