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Flannery O’Connor
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„He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.“
„… free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.“
„Tennessee’s a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia’s a lousy state too.“
„When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.“
„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.“
„Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.“
„Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.“
„The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can’t make something out of a little experience, you probably won’t be able to make it out of a lot.“
„Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter.“
„Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.“
„Conviction without experience makes for harshness.“
„Someone once told the Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor that it is more open-minded to think that the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar is a great, wonderful, powerful symbol.Her response was, “If it’s only a symbol, to hell with it.“
„I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.“
„When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.“
„To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility…“
„The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.“
„Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn’t stifle enough of them.“
„Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.“
„Even a child with normal feet was in love with the world after he had got a new pair of shoes.“
„Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.“
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