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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Been Bestseller Could Good Good Teacher Many Teacher

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

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Ability According Change Does Our Stomach Truth

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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.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Bitterness Ends Expect Life Much Sentimental Softness Too Too Much View

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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

Topics: About Action Brutal Character Grace Hard Hopeless Most People Stories Support Think Very Who Willing

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

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Better Failures Old Successes Than Young Your

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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Crossroads Eternity Find His Location Meet Peculiar Place Problem Somehow Time Where Writer

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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

Topics: Age Best Despair Domesticated Happily Learned Live Our Worst

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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Down Find Know Most People Sit Story Until Write

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The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Innocence Proceed Southerner Those Tolerant Weaknesses

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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Again Am Discover Doing Know Lady Like Novel Old Old Lady Over Say See Then Think Until Well Write I Think I Am I See

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 25th, 1925

Died: August 3rd, 1964

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