All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.
Flannery O'Connor
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle 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.
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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.
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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
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