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Flannery O'Connor Quotes

It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.

Flannery O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: March 25, 1925 - August 3, 1964

Topics

Rich Poor More Fiction Seems Even

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

Melody Beattie

Time Moment Think Even Each

I spent my time in Serie C: that's a league that grinds you down and spits you out.

Maurizio Sarri

Time You Down Out My Time Spent

Suspicion is only another form of cowardice. The man who suspects constantly suspects because he is afraid. Whenever you find a man with a free, frank, generous, brave nature, you will find that man without suspicion.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Nature Man Brave Free You Find

I grew up completely overwhelmed by TV, and part of the reason why I have gone into television is as a way to justify to myself all those wasted hours of watching TV as a kid. I can now look back and say, 'Oh, that was research.'

Matt Groening

Myself Research Look Back Television

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Amir Butler

Love Freedom Doubt Desire Oppression

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

Poetry Wrong Sense Poem Begins Lump

I'm a sensitive, sensitive person. Overly sensitive. Extremely emotional.

Mary Lambert

Person Emotional Sensitive Extremely

When one has been married over thirty years, of course it would be absurd not to admit there have been some difficulties, at some times. But the important thing is that we have weathered them.

Louis Jourdan

Admit Important Thirty Difficulties

A wide range of possible fiscal policy tools and approaches could enhance the cyclical stability of the economy. For example, steps could be taken to increase the effectiveness of the automatic stabilizers, and some economists have proposed that greater fiscal support could be usefully provided to state and local governments during recessions.

Janet Yellen

Support Tools Possible Economy Steps

I didn't actually begin photographing, or even visit New York, for the first time until I was 26.

Brandon Stanton

Time New York New First Time First

I don't like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

Bryan Adams

Short Long Find Go Month Out

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

Alfred North Whitehead

Great Meaning Matter Out Context