It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: work sacrifice bleeding hardship sweat
The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
Flannery O'ConnorWhen in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
Flannery O'ConnorIf you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: philosophy christianity church nihilism theology
The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: religion
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: grotesque southern-writing
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: memories
Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: humor writing childhood authors southern-authors southern-writers
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.
Flannery O'ConnorStichwörter: wisdom
Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.
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