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#1

“Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.”
― Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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#2

“Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.”
― Novalis

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#3

“The meaning of fiction is not abstract meaning but experienced meaning.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: naturalism, the-nature-and-aim-of-fiction

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#4

“It is August.
My life is going to change. I feel it.”
― Raymond Carver, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

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#5

“Of course we did everything right, insofar as we were able to imagine what "right" was.”
― Donald Barthelme, Sadness

tags: party

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#6

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

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#7

“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works

tags: truth

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#8

“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#9

“Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: goals, inspirational, success

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#10

“I can, with one eye squinted, take it all as a blessing.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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#11

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#12

“To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#13

“Total non-retention has kept my education from being a burden to me.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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#14

“A story is a way to say something that can’t be said any other way, and it takes every word in the story to say what the meaning is.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#15

“I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: christ, religion, south

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#16

“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.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

tags: grotesque, southern-writing

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#17

“The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#18

“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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#19

“He and the girl had almost nothing to say to each other. One thing he did say was, 'I ain't got any tattoo on my back.'

'What you got on it?' the girl said.

'My shirt,' Parker said. 'Haw.'

'Haw, haw,' the girl said politely.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories

tags: funny, parkers-back

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#20

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness. ”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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#21

“Grace changes us and change is painful".”
― Flannery O'Connor

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#22

“She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories

tags: education

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