Flannery O'Connor Quotes

All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.

Flannery O'Connor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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China is the world's largest lighting market. That should not be ignored lightly.

Joe Kaeser

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I make mistakes like anybody else, I will make mistakes. And you have to reflect on it, and you have to listen to people. That is the key.

Jeremy Corbyn

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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.

John Masefield

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When families break down, you have a lot of repercussion from that, from poverty to crime to lack of discipline.

Tony Evans

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You know, I don't only play for the record books.

Roger Federer

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I would feel like such a behind if I went to California and made my family move, and they couldn't find their dreams there, too.

RJ Cyler

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If you're a lay person listening to jazz, you don't necessarily understand everything that's happening within the form. But you get the sense of it, the feel of it, because you're getting to hear something that develops right in front of your face.

Jason Moran

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The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.

Jay Griffiths

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He worked for the day when all people would be clothed in dignity.

Don King

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Stephen King in general, as well as films of the apocalypse from the '70s, had a big influence on 'Zone One.'

Colson Whitehead

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Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Conrad Hall

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But you know, there's always a danger nowadays that films are gonna be brought up to Canada for budget reasons. And that's something that really concerns me.

Philip Kaufman

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