Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

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

  Flannery O'Connor

  Funny, Life, Change

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

• 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

• I doubt if the texture of Southern life is any more grotesque than that of the rest of the nation, but it does seem evident that the Southern writer is particularly adept at recognizing the grotesque; and to recognize the grotesque, you have to have some notion of what is not grotesque and why.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Southern, Doubt

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.23, Macmillan

• To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Views, Too Much

• Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Fall, Writing

• She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Good Woman, Misfits

• Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Happiness, Success

• When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Spiritual, Lost

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.151, Macmillan

• I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Life, Success, Writing

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