February 2012
6 posts
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“The supernatural is an embarrassment today even to many of the churches.”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“Religious enthusiasm is accepted as one of the South’s more grotesque features,...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“One of the tendencies of our age is to use the suffering of children to...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“When tenderness is detached from the source of tenderness, its logical outcome...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“[The Catholic writer] will be very thankful if he has been fortunate enough to...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
January 2012
6 posts
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“What has given the South her identity are those beliefs and qualities which she...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“Ignorance is excusable when it is borne like a cross, but when it is wielded...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
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“[Jesus] thrown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it’s nothing...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via dailyflanneryoc)
December 2011
5 posts
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“The word “dreams”… always terrifies me. The artist dreams no...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“Strangle that word dreams. You don’t dream up a form and put the truth in...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“The last thing I would like to convince you of is that form is an absolute lying...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I think there is no suffering greater than what is caused by the doubts of those...”
– Flannery O’Connor
November 2011
11 posts
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“The writer doesn’t have to understand, only produce. And what makes him...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“The world is full of people who can write only one story…”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“You can suggest something obvious is going to happen but you cannot have it...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I draw the line at any kind of research and even object to looking up words in...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“The person who teaches writing is not much more than a midwife. After you help...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it,...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“The Communion of Saints has something to do with the fact that the burdens we...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“Part of Purgatory must be the realization of how little it would have to take to...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I suppose gambling is not a virtue but it almost seems like one in a society...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“On the subject of the feminist business, I just never think… of qualities...”
– Flannery O’Connor
October 2011
18 posts
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“What offends my taste in fiction is when right is held up as wrong, or wrong as...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“Total nonretention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I am never likely to romanticize [my father] because I carry around most of his...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation....”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“Perhaps feeling belief is not always an illusion but I imagine it is most of the...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“Fiction doesn’t lie, but it can’t tell the whole truth.”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I don’t think purity is mere innocence; I don’t think babies and...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“On the matter of purity we can never judge ourselves, much less anybody else....”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I think evil is the defective use of good.”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I know nothing harder than making good people believable.”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I can’t climb down off the high powered defense reflex whateveritis. The...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. I find it in myself and don’t dislike...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“…baby stories and nun stories and young girl stories—a nice vapid-Catholic...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“The fact is that in order not to be scandalized, one has to have a whole view of...”
– Flannery O’Connor
September 2011
25 posts
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“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality....”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“You can be so absolutely honest and so absolutely wrong at the same time that I...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“However, it does seem to me that you don’t have to rely on the virtue of...”
– Flannery O’Connor
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“This is a peculiar thing—I have the one-fold one-Shepherd instinct as...”
– Flannery O’Connor