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“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
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“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
“The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.”
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“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
― Wise Blood
― Wise Blood
“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine,
There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
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There’s always laughter and good red wine.
At least I’ve always found it so.
Benedicamus Domino!”
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