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“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

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“She looked at nice young men as if she could smell their stupidity.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“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.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: criticism, humor, writing

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#4

“I write to discover what I know.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#5

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: authors, childhood, humor, southern-authors, southern-writers, writing

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#6

“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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#7

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

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#8

“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: survival

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#9

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to was never there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... Nothing outside you can give you any place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”
― Flannery O'Connor , Wise Blood

tags: life, place, search

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#10

“The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

tags: funny, parkers-back

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#11

“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.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

tags: literay-criticism, william-sessions

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#12

“I love a lot of people, understand none of them...”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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#13

“You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Violent Bear It Away

tags: cults, delusion, extremism, fanaticism, fanatics, guerrilla-decontextualism, madness, mental-health, neurosis, political-extremism, psychosis, religious-extremism, self-deception, zealots

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“The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#15

“I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#16

“Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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#17

“When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#18

“Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#19

“Tennessee's a hillbilly dumping ground, and Georgia's a lousy state too.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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“I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

tags: choirs, choruses, crowds, human-voice, music, shouting

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#21

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

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#22

“One of the greatest tragedies in mankind's entire history may be that morality was hijacked by religion.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: morality, organized-religion, religion

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#23

“I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.”
― Arthur C. Clarke

tags: astrology, attributed-no-source, humor, skepticism

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#24

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.”
― William F. Buckley

tags: liberalism, liberals, politics

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#25

“Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno

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#26

“It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.”
― Giordano Bruno

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#27

“Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.”
― Giordano Bruno

tags: astronomy, blasphemy, burned-at-the-stake, burning, condemnation, fear, heresy, heretical, hero, inquisition, last-words, martyr, martyr-for-science, progress, science

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#28

“In space there are countless constellations, suns and planets; we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns...”
― Giordano Bruno, Despre infinit univers si lumi

tags: 1584

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#29

“Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.”
― Giordano Bruno

tags: faith, fear, heresy

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“It is immoral to hold an opinion in order to curry another's favor; mercenary, servile, and against the dignity of human liberty to yield and submit; supremely stupid to believe as a matter of habit; irrational to decide according to the majority opinion, as if the number of sages exceeded the infinite number of fools.”
― Giordano Bruno

tags: philosophy

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