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Flannery O'Connor Quotes

«To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness»
«I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.»
«Conviction without experience makes for harshness.»
Author: Flannery O'Connor | Keywords: harshness
«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.»
Author: Flannery O'Connor | About: History | Keywords: brutal, hopeless, the Action
«The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.»
Author: Flannery O'Connor | Keywords: staring
«I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.»
«Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.»
«The great advantage of being a Southern writer is that we don't have to go anywhere to look for manners; bad or good, we've got them in abundance. We in the South live in a society that is rich in contradiction, rich in irony, rich in contrast, and particularly rich in its speech.»
«I've felt too bad to type them.»
«The difficulty of all this,»

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