Flannery O'Connor

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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

Flannery O'Connor

age

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

best

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Flannery O'Connor

business

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

Flannery O'Connor

change

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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experience

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Flannery O'Connor

experience

Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.

Flannery O'Connor

faith

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

good

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

Flannery O'Connor

life

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Flannery O'Connor

teacher

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