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“He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'

'What you got on it?' the girl said.

'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'

'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.”

Flannery O’Connor book The Complete Stories

Source: The Complete Stories

“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

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“It's easier to bleed than sweat, Mr. Motes.”

Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood

Source: Wise Blood

“There are all kinds of truth… but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”

Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood

Source: Wise Blood

“Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing.”

Flannery O’Connor

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

“There is no excuse for anyone to write fiction for public consumption unless he has been called to do so by the presence of a gift. It is the nature of fiction not to be good for much unless it is good in itself.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”

Flannery O’Connor

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

“Grace changes us and change is painful".”

Flannery O’Connor

“The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”

Flannery O’Connor

“She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of self-knowledge is humility…”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown.”

Flannery O’Connor book Wise Blood

Source: Wise Blood

“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”

Flannery O’Connor

“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.”

Flannery O’Connor

Source: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.”
(August 9, 1955)”

Flannery O’Connor