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“You can't clobber any reader while he's looking. You divert his attention, then you clobber him and he never knows what hit him.”

Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor

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

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“Unadaptability is often a virtue.”

Virtue Adaptability

Book:The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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“I am very handy with my advice and then when anybody appears to be following it, I get frantic.”

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“I was a very ancient twelve; my views at that age would have done credit to a Civil War veteran. I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. The weight of the centuries lies on children, I'm sure of it.”

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“The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.”

Two Sex Sin Fiction Too Much Worst Taste Sentiments Pornography Sentimentality Bad Taste

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“It is hard to make your adversaries real people unless you recognize yourself in them - in which case, if you don't watch out, they cease to be adversaries.”

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“Physics grapples with the largest questions the universe presents. Where did the totality of reality come from? Did time have a beginning?”

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“Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God.”

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Book:The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.”

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“Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.”

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“One of the effects of modern liberal Protestantism has been gradually to turn religion into poetry and therapy, to make truth vaguer and vaguer and more and more relative, to banish intellectual distinctions, to depend on feeling instead of thought, and gradually to come to believe that God has no power, that he cannot communicate with us, cannot reveal himself to us, indeed has not done so, and that religion is our own sweet invention.”

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Author:Flannery O'Connor