Daily Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Flannery O'Connor quotes, dealing with anything from philosophy, Catholicism, Southern culture, and fiction writing.

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I don’t think purity is mere innocence; I don’t think babies and idiots possess it. I take it to be something that comes either with experience or with Grace so that it can never be naive.

—Flannery O’Connor

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