Quotes of Flannery O’Connor - somelinesforyou

“ The first product of self-knowledge is humility. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ 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

“ All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ 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

“ It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ 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

“ I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however naive that may have been, it was a good deal less naive than some of the limited objectives he has now. Today novels are considered to be entirely concerned with the social or economic or psychological forces that they will by necessity exhibit, or with those details of daily life that are for the good novelist only means to some deeper end. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life, and this is a softness that ends in bitterness. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

“ The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. ”

- Flannery O’Connor
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