She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.
Flannery O'ConnorThe mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity...
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Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.
Flannery O'ConnorTo know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: self-knowledge
When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.
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I believe firmly in mystery and manners.
Flannery O'ConnorThe modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.
Flannery O'ConnorTags: modern-writers
Some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation.
Flannery O'ConnorHe loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery...
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Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen.
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