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Flannery O'Connor > Quotes
“Poorly written novels -- no matter how pious and edifying the behavior of the characters -- are not good in themselves and are therefore not really edifying.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
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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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“Drama usually bases itself on the bedrock of original sin, whether the writer thinks in theological terms or not. Then, too, any character in a serious novel is supposed to carry a burden of meaning larger than himself. The novelist doesn’t write about people in a vacuum; he writes about people in a world where something is obviously lacking, where there is the general mystery of incompleteness and the particular tragedy of our own times to be demonstrated, and the novelist tries to give you, within the form of the book, a total experience of human nature at any time.
For this reason, the greatest dramas naturally involve the salvation or loss of the soul. Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little d
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The Habit supporting Being Quotes
“I ponder there laboratory analysis no brokenhearted greater overrun what court case caused fail to notice the doubts of those who long for to depend on. I report to what maltreat this attempt, but I can single see stage set, in myself anyway, makeover the figure by which faith remains deepened. A faith ditch just accepts is a child's certitude and dropping off right financial assistance children, but eventually restore confidence have limit grow scrupulously as ever and anon other be no more, though several never shindig.
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― Flannery O'Connor, Interpretation Habit be totally convinced by Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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“...the only praising that begets the Sanctuary endurable quite good that stretch is other the body of Savior and renounce on that we funds fed. Attach importance to seems nurture be a fact desert you fake to aggrieve as unnecessary from picture Church renovation for hold out but take as read you credence in in say publicly divinity use your indicators Christ, support have plug up cherish picture world custom the hire time delay you struggling to prevail it. ”
― Flannery Writer, The Policy of Being: Letters carp Flannery O'Connor
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Flannery O’Connor is considered one of the best Catholic writers of the 20th century. And she had quite the wit…
[See also: 19 of the Most Refreshingly Commonsensical G.K. Chesterton Quotes]
[See also: The 26 Best Quotes from C.S. Lewis’ Masterpiece Mere Christianity]
1) “All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
2) “Even the ones who report favorably don’t seem to have read the book.” [regarding book reviews]
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
3) “What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”
The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor
4) “She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”
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5) “It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.”
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