Quotes by Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

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I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
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
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief'... is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from a — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
[W]hat one has as a born Catholic is something given and accepted before it is experienced. I am only slowly coming to e — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not mak — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the flesh and the physical. — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At — Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor