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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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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Among the questions we have in mind: dark matter, antimatter, and matter symmetry.
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Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all.
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When you haven't met someone, regardless of whether they're an author or not, when you're taking their work, and you are in some way filtering it or interpreting it, of course there's potential for them to feel that you have, in some way, not lived up to what it could have been.
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I'm proud that I have done so many different kinds of things and maintained an amazing family. And I think that's the joy: that I've been able to have everything.
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For a while, I became a model scout and agent, thinking naively I could change the industry from the inside, and even kicked off the famous 'size zero debate' with an article I wrote to the 'Evening Standard' about my concerns from behind the curtain of the business, back in 2005.
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The responsibility to do missionary work rests with every member of the Church.
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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.
