Flannery O'Connor Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• She was a talker, wasn't she?" Bobby Lee said, sliding down the ditch with a yodel. "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life." "Some fun!" Bobby Lee said. "Shut up, Bobby Lee," The Misfit said. "It's no real pleasure in life.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fun, Real, Good Woman

  Flannery O'Connor (1971). “The complete stories”

• Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The Misfit continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Jesus, Voice, House

• Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Pleasure

  Flannery O'Connor (1965). “Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”, p.4, Macmillan

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