Flannery O’Connor: Quotes about life

Flannery O’Connor was American novelist, short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.
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“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

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

Flannery O’Connor

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

“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

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

Flannery O’Connor

“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.”

Flannery O’Connor

“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.”

Flannery O’Connor