Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Strong, Imagination

• The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Thinking, Personality, Catholic

• Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Evil, Culture, Good And Evil

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.200, Macmillan

• ... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Novelists, Culture, Possibility

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.164, Macmillan

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