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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.

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Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

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Quote from Flannery O’Connor, Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

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Quote from Flannery O’Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor

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

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Quote from Flannery O’Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

He loved her because it was his nature to do so, but there were times when he could not endure her love for him. There were times when it became nothing but pure idiot mystery…

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Flannery O'Connor Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Quote from Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.

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Quote from Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place… Nothing outside you can give you any place… In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.

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Quote from Flannery O’Connor, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

She would’ve been a good woman,” said The Misfit, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.

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