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Flannery O'Connor

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


— Flannery O'Connor


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


— Flannery O'Connor


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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.


— Flannery O'Connor


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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.


— Flannery O'Connor


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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.


— Flannery O'Connor


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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle 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.


— Flannery O'Connor


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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.


— Flannery O'Connor


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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.


— Flannery O'Connor


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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.


— Flannery O'Connor


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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.


— Flannery O'Connor


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About Flannery O'Connor






Did you know about Flannery O'Connor?

Workshop director Paul Engle was the first to read and comment on the initial drafts of what would become Wise Blood. O'Connor wrote: "Grace changes us and change is painful. She entered Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College & State University) in an accelerated three-year program and graduated in June 1945 with a Social Sciences degree.

S. Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25 1925 – August 3 1964) was an American writer and essayist. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters.

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