Flannery O’Connor: Quotes about the trip

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

Books , Way , Reading

“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”

Flannery O’Connor
Way

“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

Truth , Way , Knowledge

“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

People , Way