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"I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both. (1956)"
Flannery O'ConnorI dont think you should write something as long as a novel around anyt — Flannery O'Connor
"I dont think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times. (1959)"
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
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Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
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"It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you dont watch out, they cease to be adversaries. (1956)"
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"The novel is an art form and when you use it for anything other than art, you pervert it....If you manage to use it successfully for social, religious, or other purposes, it is because you make it art first. (1956)"
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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. (1955)"
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"Conviction without experience makes for harshness. (1955)"
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"All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. (1958)"
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