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Quote by Flannery O'Connor

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

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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

“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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“A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle.”

Wells Stories Muscles

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“You ought to be able to discover something from your stories. If you don't, probably nobody else will.”

Ifs Stories Able Ought

Book:Mystery and Manners

Source: Mystery and Manners

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