Daily Flannery O'Connor Quotes

The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may well be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience.

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The Southerner, who isn’t convinced of it, is very much afraid that he may have been formed in the image and likeness of God.

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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence, and he knows that a taste for self-preservation can be readily combined with the missionary spirit.

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Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

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Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

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Violence is a force which can be used for good or evil, and among other things taken by it is the kingdom of heaven.

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The only time [the freak] should be disturbing to us is when he is held up as a whole man.

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Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.

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Part of [the modern world is] trying to eliminate mystery while another part tries to rediscover it in disciplines less personally demanding than religion.

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I even dislike the concept artist when it sets you above, all it is is working in a certain kind of medium to make something right. The material is no more exalted than any other kind of material and the idea of making it right is what should be applied to all making.

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