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“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it”

Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood

Source: Wise Blood

“Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“I love a lot of people, understand none of them…”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity…”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“I write to discover what I know.”

Flannery O’Connor

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles 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.”

Flannery O’Connor

“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose