Flannery O'connor

Quotes

• “Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless yo...”
• “If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or t...”
• “You know,"Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know ...”
• “Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them...”
• “Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn...”
• “The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”(Augu...”
• “Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.”
• “I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
• “People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”
• “She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
• “The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
• “Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
• “The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”