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Flannery O'Connor

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Details about Flannery O'Connor's life are scarce, but their observations have traveled far and wide. Their thinking spans from Truth to Teacher, revealing a mind that refused to stay in one lane. Discover 13 of Flannery O'Connor's most memorable quotes, ranging across Truth, Teacher, Experience, Life, and Good. One quote that captures their voice: "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Change

All Quotes by Flannery O'Connor

“When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Business

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Change

“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Faith

“Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Best

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

— Flannery O'Connor

Life

“There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Teacher

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Experience

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Truth

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Experience

“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.”

— Flannery O'Connor

Age