Go warn the children of God of the terrible speed of mercy. Flannery O'Connor More Quotes by Flannery O'Connor More Quotes From Flannery O'Connor Does one's integrity ever lie in what he is not able to do? I think that usually it does, for free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. It is a mystery and one which a novel, even a comic novel, can only be asked to deepen. Flannery O'Connor integrity mean lying I have what passes for an education in this day and time, but I am not deceived by it. Flannery O'Connor this-day deceived 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-are where-you-come gone I am very much afraid that to the fiction writer the fact that we shall always have the poor with us is a source of satisfaction,for it means, essentially, that he will always be able to find someone like himself. Flannery O'Connor able mean fiction I distrust pious phrases, especially when they issue from my mouth. I try militantly never to be affected by the pious language of the faithful but it is always coming out when you least expect it. In contrast to the pious language of the faithful, the liturgy is beautifully flat. Flannery O'Connor faithful issues trying Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle. Flannery O'Connor policy politics principles When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... 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. Flannery O'Connor quality southern writing Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and come off into the dark where he might be walking on the water and not know it and then suddenly know it and drown. Flannery O'Connor dark moving jesus She would of been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life. Flannery O'Connor misfits good-woman life Grace changes us and change is painful". Flannery O'Connor southern painful grace Unadaptability is often a virtue. Flannery O'Connor adaptability virtue The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is both natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental. Flannery O'Connor religious writing men The beginning of human knowledge is through the senses, and the fiction writer begins where the human perception begins. He appeals through the senses, and you cannot appeal through the senses with abstractions. Flannery O'Connor crafts perception fiction I feel that whatever virtues the novel may have are very much connected with the limitations you mention. I am not writing a conventional novel, and I think that the quality of the novel I write will derive precisely from the peculiarity or aloneness, if you will, of the experience I write from. Flannery O'Connor quality writing thinking A story has to have muscle as well as meaning, and the meaning has to be in the muscle. Flannery O'Connor muscles wells stories If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference. Flannery O'Connor catholic differences believe Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. Flannery O'Connor dogma doctrine way 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. Flannery O'Connor routine survival happiness I don’t want any of this artificial superficial feeling stimulated by the choir. Today I have proved myself a glutton—for Scotch oatmeal cookies and erotic thought. There is nothing left to say of me. Flannery O'Connor erotic oatmeal scotch I am much younger now than I was at twelve or anyway, less burdened. Flannery O'Connor self-confidence twelve
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