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“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. ”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.”
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“She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint...”
― The Complete Stories
― The Complete Stories
“Everything that gave her pleasure was small and depressed him.”
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
― Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories
“There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.”
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Sarah’s 2025 Year in Books
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