“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”Flannery O’Connor
“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
“… free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply.”Flannery O’Connor book Wise BloodSource: Wise Blood