Flannery O’Connor
Quotations
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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“There’s many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.” -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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“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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“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.” -Flannery O’Connor
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“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.” -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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“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God’s business.” -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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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily. – Flannery O’Connor
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