Flannery O’Connor: Quotes about life

“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

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

“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.”

“The life you save may very well be your own.”

“The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you can't make something out of a little experience, you probably won't be able to make it out of a lot.”

“When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken. I was just there to assist the chicken but it was the high point in my life. Everything since has been anticlimax.”