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Flannery O'Connor Quotes
Flannery O'Connor
American
Author
Born:
Mar 25
,
1925
Died:
Aug 3
,
1964
About
Best
Think
Writers
You
I Am
To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
Flannery O'Connor
Life
Too Much
Bitterness
Too
Softness
Expect
Ends
Sentimental
Much
View
Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
Flannery O'Connor
Faith
Be True
Believe
Someone
True
Knows
Whether
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor
God
Myself
Me
You
I Am
Please
Way
Push
Know
Because
Am
Aside
Help
There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
Flannery O'Connor
Teacher
Good
Good Teacher
Bestseller
Could
Been
Many
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
Flannery O'Connor
Think
Enough
I Think
Everywhere
Writers
Opinion
Stifle
Go
Them
Asked
Universities
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
Flannery O'Connor
Live
Able
About
Writer
Writes
He
Make
Cannot
Choose
Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.
Flannery O'Connor
Great
Better
Losing
Will
Manners
Our
Kind
Bad
Seems
Bad Manners
Writers
Because
Overly
Condition
Than
Any
Them
Produces
Novelist
Conscious
Consequence
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
Flannery O'Connor
Innocence
Those
Weaknesses
Southerner
Proceed
Tolerant