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Mary Flannery O’Connor war eine amerikanische Schriftstellerin.

✵ 25. März 1925 – 3. August 1964  •  Andere Namen Mary Flannery O'Connor, แฟลนเนอรี โอคอนเนอร์, فلانری اوکانر
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“I love a lot of people, understand none of them…”

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

“The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity…”

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

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

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“I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it.”

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Quelle: The Habit of Being: Letters of 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”

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Flannery O’Connor buch Wise Blood

Quelle: Wise Blood

“The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.”

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“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”

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Flannery O’Connor buch Wise Blood

Quelle: Wise Blood

“Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.”

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

“I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.”

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

“Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.”

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Quelle: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”

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

“Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots.”

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

“A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him.”

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

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

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Quelle: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.”

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Quelle: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”

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Quelle: Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”

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

“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.”

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“She would've been a good woman," said The Misfit, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”

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Quelle: A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.”

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“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”

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

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