O Connor Quotes
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.
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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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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.
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The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally.
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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.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.
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Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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It is better to be young in your failures than old in your successes.
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And if the student finds that this is not to his taste, well, that is regrettable. Most regrettable. His taste should not be consulted; it is being formed.
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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.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
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I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal.
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There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
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I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.
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The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
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If you do the same thing every day at the same time for the same length of time, you'll save yourself from many a sink. Routine is a condition of survival.
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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.
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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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To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.
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