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Flannery O'Connor Quotes

They Said It

Quotes #1

When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville. (source)

Quotes #2

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. I think they don't stifle enough of them. The kind of writing that can be taught is the kind that you then have to teach people not to read. (source)

Quotes #3

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. (source)

Quotes #4

There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. (source)

Quotes #5

I don't deserve any credit for turning the other cheek as my tongue is always in it. (source)