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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Always Any Cheek Credit Deserve Other Tongue Turning

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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Am Aside Because God Help Know Me Myself Please Push Way You I Am

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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

Topics: Belongs Book Business Few God Hands He Leaves May Others Over Save Souls Take Think Try Use Worry Writer Your I Think

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

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Be True Believe Faith Knows Someone True Whether

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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Conviction Experience Harshness Makes Without

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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Art Basis Both Matter Mode Truth

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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

Topics: About Attachment Concerned Even Fiction Fiction Writer He Lack More Poor Rich Seems Than Writer Writes

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Manners are of such great consequence to the novelist that any kind will do. Bad manners are better than no manners at all, and because we are losing our customary manners, we are probably overly conscious of them; this seems to be a condition that produces writers.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Any Bad Bad Manners Because Better Condition Conscious Consequence Great Kind Losing Manners Novelist Our Overly Produces Seems Than Them Will Writers

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I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Behind Else Kinds Only Preach Somebody Them Truth Your

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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.

~Flannery O'Connor

Topics: Afraid Am Book Controversial Will I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 25th, 1925

Died: August 3rd, 1964

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