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Flannery O'Connor Quotes


An American novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

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I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway less burdened.

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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.

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The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.

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

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And if the student finds that this is not to his taste well that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.

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If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.