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Quote by Flannery O'Connor

“I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.”

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Flannery O'Connor was an American writer known for her unique Southern background and profound religious themes. Her works often explore moral and religious issues through satire and humor, with her novels 'Wise Blood' and 'The Violent Bear It Away' being among her most famous. more

“As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Years Persons Has Beens Book Seems Lost Grows Know How Gone Generations Twenties Golden Thirty Survivor Thirty Years Overlooked Old Things Old Person

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.”

Ifs Doe Flower Roots Plant

Author:William Stafford

“You can lie at a banquet but you have to be honest in the kitchen.”

Lying Honest Being Honest Kitchen Banquets

Book:Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

Source: Crossing unmarked snow: further views on the writer's vocation

Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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