Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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One reason we love fiction is because stories have a comforting shape. They provide a resolution that's lacking in our regular lives.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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I honored the fallen enemy by placing a stone on his beautiful grave.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
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There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they're so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of 'Paradise Lost,' 'The Ruined Cottage' by Wordsworth, Prospero's 'Our revels now are ended' speech near the end of 'The Tempest.'
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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My father wanted me to be a pharmacist like himself. He had been a doctor, but he no longer believed in medicine; so he became a pharmacist, but he believed in that hardly more.
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Boys can see adventure in a dirty old duck puddle, and if the Scoutmaster is a boys' man he can see it, too.
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The faith of the church must be tried by God's word, and not God's word by the church; neither yet my faith.
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I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
