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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

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 Quotes

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

Flannery O'Connor

American Author

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

Flannery O'Connor

American Author Failure

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville

Flannery O'Connor

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only.

Flannery O'Connor

I've felt too bad to type them. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

I've felt too bad to type them.

Flannery O'Connor

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs as you do, you can relax a little and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock, to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind, you draw large and startling figures.

Flannery O'Connor

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Flannery O'Connor

American Author

Conviction without experience makes for harshness. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor

American Author

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naÃÂ¯ve that may have been, it was a good deal less naÃÂ¯ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. - Flannery O'Connor Quotes

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naÃÂ¯ve that may have been, it was a good deal less naÃÂ¯ve than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end.

Flannery O'Connor

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