Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd. - Flannery O'Connor
You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.
- Flannery O'Connor
Unadaptability is often a virtue. - Flannery O'Connor
Unadaptability is often a virtue.
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. - Flannery O'Connor
All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. - Flannery O'Connor
I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it - Flannery O'Connor
Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of s… - Flannery O'Connor
[To] know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks. It is to measure oneself against Truth, and not the other way around. The first product of s…
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross. - Flannery O'Connor
What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own. - Flannery O'Connor
You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.
...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it. - Flannery O'Connor
...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
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