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Flannery O'Connor

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Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles 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."

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."

"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

"He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery..."

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles 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."

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."

"Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got."

"He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery..."

"Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me."

"She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."

"Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days."

"I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it."

"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles 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."

"Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better."

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