He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'

'What you got on it?' the girl said.

'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'

'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.

Flannery O'Connor

Mots clés funny parkers-back



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

Flannery O'Connor

Mots clés truth



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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

Mots clés humor wit



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Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.

Flannery O'Connor

Mots clés art reading writing fiction craft



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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

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The black sky was underpinned with long silver streaks that looked like scaffolding and depth on depth behind it were thousands of stars that all seemed to be moving very slowly as if they were about some vast construction work that involved the whole universe and would take all time to complete. No one was paying attention to the sky.

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A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.

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She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel.

"She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

"Some fun!" Bobby Lee said.

"Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.

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There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.

Flannery O'Connor

Mots clés talent art writing vocation on-fiction fiction value



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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

Flannery O'Connor

Mots clés funny parkers-back



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