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• Success means being heard and don't stand there and tell me that you are indifferent to being heard. You may write for the joy of it, but the act of writing is not complete in itself. It has to end in its audience.

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  Writing, Mean, Joy

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• There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy.

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  House, Yards, Biographies

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.290, Macmillan

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• In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

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  Christian, Writing, Moral Judgement

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

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  Life, Success, Writing

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• El escritor opera en una peculiar encrucijada en la que el tiempo, el lugar y la eternidad se encuentran de algún modo. Su problema es encontrar ese lugar.

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  Peculiar, Location, Problem

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.59, Macmillan

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• I write to discover what I know.

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  Escribir, Saber

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• The Church's stand on birth control is the most absolutely spiritual of all her stands and with all of us being materialists at heart, there is little wonder that it causes unease. I wish various fathers would quit trying to defend it by saying that the world can support 40 billion. I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

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  Spiritual, Children, Father

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• I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it.

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  Deceived, This Day

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• The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.

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  Hilarious, Cutting, Tree

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.520, Macmillan

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• At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

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  Despair, Age, Literature

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.159, Macmillan

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• The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.

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  Christian, Catholic, Mind

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.146, Macmillan

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• Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

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  Writing, Deals

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.342, Macmillan

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• There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the moral he could get out of it, and however na?ve that may have been, it was a good deal less na?ve 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.

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  Book, Mean, Average

  1960 'Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction'. Paper read at Wesleyan College, Fall.

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• Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.

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  Christianity, Theologian

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• The dead don't bother with particulars.

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  Death, Bother

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The Complete Stories”, p.297, Macmillan

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• Querido Dios, no quiero haber inventado mi fe para satisfacer mi debilidad. No quiero haber creado a Dios a mi imagen y semejanza, como tanto les gusta decir. Por favor, dame la gracia necesaria, oh Señor, y por favor no permitas que sea tan difícil de conseguir como lo hizo Kafka.

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  Giving, Grace, Weakness

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• When you can state the theme of a story, when you can separate it from the story itself, then you can be sure the story is not a very good one.

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  Stories, States, Theme

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). "Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose", p.96, Macmillan

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• The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.

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  Religious, Writing, Men

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• Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.

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  Tennessee, Georgia, Hillbilly

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• The life you save may very well be your own.

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  Mayo, Wells

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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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  Libro, Escritura, Pensamiento

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.143, Macmillan

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• I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Writing, Stories, Rubbish

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• Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.

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  Christian, Writing, Ideas

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• The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.

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  Truth Is, Used, Distortion

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• I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—​for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me.

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  Scotch, Oatmeal, Erotic

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