Flannery O'Connor Quotes

• The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it

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• I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

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• People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point, they don’t read them.

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• It’s like building a nest. First she thinks about it, then she begins to gather the materials, then she begins to put it together.

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• There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now.

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• While the South is hardly Christ-centred, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

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• I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.

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• Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

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• Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

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• Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.

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• Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

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• The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

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• Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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• I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else’s. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there’s no truth.

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• We are now living in an age which doubts both fact and value. It is the life of this age that we wish to see and judge.

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• The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

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• Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

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• You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

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• I don’t deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

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• There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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Flannery O'Connor (41)

Birth:	25th March, 1925
Death:	3rd August, 1964
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.

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