“Whenever I’m asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“… the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“… the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“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 isthat there’s no truth.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“… art transcends its limitations only by staying within them.”
Flannery O’Connor
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“I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.”
Flannery O’Connor
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